THE POETRY DEAL: A FILM WITH DIANE
DI PRIMA (2011) ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Melanie La Rosa
"A poem can be anything," Diane di Prima says at about the midpoint of this 27-minute documentary. "You have a blank piece of paper. You can do anything. You can make anything happen." Di Prima spent a lifetime doing that, as one of the few women to crack the mostly boys' club that was the Beat Generation. She was passionate about her work and tenacious in her pursuit of it, because she didn't know any other way to be. "Remember, you can have what you ask for," she says at the end. "Ask for everything."
