Coming To Terms With Impermanence (Currently In Production)
"A few people like her get made every few thousand years, in order to highlight the dullness of the rest." Andrei Codrescu, The Baltimore Sun, May 1983
Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in a traditional Italian American home taught Diane di Prima that being a poet, writer - or really any kind of artist - was not something one did. But di Prima did not listen. On the shelves of the Brooklyn Public Library, di Prima found inspiration in classic philosophers and poets. At age 14, she made a commitment to be a writer. By the early 1950's, di Prima was living in Greenwich Village, writing, publishing, and starting literary journals. Within a few years, she became well-known as a prominent member of the still-nascent Beat scene, and her poetry and books began to circulate around the world.
Di Prima now lives in San Francisco, where she continues adding to her brilliant and powerful body of work. She is a pioneer who broke boundaries of class and gender to publish and take her work seriously, and her writing opens a window looking back through more than 50 years of poetry, politics, communes, anarchism, ecology, family, friends, art, desire, and love. Coming to Terms with Impermanence puts di Prima's life and work on screen in a unique and beautiful portrait. More