It seems like we just wished poet Diane di Prima a happy 86th birthday on August 6 and now we learn that she died yesterday, October 25, 2020.
If you click HERE, you will arrive at that birthday post -- it includes links to several other posts we've made about di Prima.
If you haven't read any of her poetry, it's great stuff and it would honor her if you sought some out to read today. That birthday post above includes a link to some.
I don't think she appeared in any of Kerouac's works, but Jack appeared in a graphic sex scene in her book, Memoirs of a Beatnik. I liked that book a lot despite her admission that she wrote it to pay the bills and the sex was intentionally gratuitous.
We're running out of Kerouac contemporaries.
RIP, Ms. di Prima!
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