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DIANE DI PRIMA

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Poems found: 428

AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION

BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION

DEATH SUNYATA CHANT: A RITE FOR PASSING OVER

FOR BILL VITT

FRAGMENTED ADDRESS TO THE FBI

HER POWER IS TO OPEN WHAT IS SHUT, SHUT WHAT IS OPEN

I CHING

I FAIL AS A DHARMA TEACHER

ISHTAR

LOBA: 1

MONTEZUMA

NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY

NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION

TASAJARA, 1969

POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS)

TRAJECTORY

LETTER TO JEANNE (FROM TASJARA)

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 51

RANT

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 19

SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE

SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN

STUDIES IN LIGHT

TO MY FATHER - 2

TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH

WISTERIA LIGHT

AN EXERCISE IN LOVE

BUDDHIST NEW YEAR

FIRST SNOW, KERHONKSON

PARACELSUS:

THE WINDOW

CHRONOLOGY

ODE TO KEATS, 2, THE DREAM

THE BELLTOWER

ON SITTING DOWN TO WRITE

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 7

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 13

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 16

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 49

APRIL FOOL POEM FOR GRANDPA

APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA

AVE, FR. LOBA

THE PRACTICE OF MAGICAL EVOCATION

HANDFUL OF STARCHIPS THROWN

ALL NIGHT LONG WE

AND LOBA IS LOVHA, OR LOUVA

AND THIS IS A CLEARING IN WHICH GLIDE - SPIRIT WOLVES

AND WHEN WE HAVE WON CLEAR

AND WILL YOU HUNT THE LOBA ?

ANTLERED / I FLEE HIM

BEARS SEE ONLY

BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE BURNING GROUNDS

BELI - ISHTAR - THE WHITE LADY - MOTHER OF ALL LIVING - CERRIDWEN

BUT IN THE LONGHOUSE

BUT WE CANT

CAN YOU, FRIEND, SAY YOU NEVER LEANED

CHANCE ARRANGEMENT OF CONSTELLATION

CRYSTAL PYRAMID W/ DIAMOND HEART

DELICIOUS THE FLESH SHE OFFERS, LIKE SUCCULENT

DIAMOND, QUARTZ, AGATE, IT IS LABYRINTH

ENDURANCE. WHAT REMAINS

EVEN W/ JEWELS ON HER EYES SHE CD NOT DREAM

FROM THE WISHED UNIVERSE

HELEN ON THE WALL

HOW DO THE GODS MANIFEST, WHERE DO THEY

HOW HE DREW HER DOWN TO PLEASURE! SHE LEFT

HUNTRESS. SHE IN RED SARI

I AM A SHADOW CROSSING ICE

I DRAW A CIRCLE ABOUT ME

I TRY TO MAKE AN IMAGE OF ILLUSION

I WAS DRAWN TO THIS WORLD

I'M BITING AT YR LEASH, I'M PLOTTING

IN WHOSE DREAM

IS HE IN BONDAGE? DOES HE BOW

IS IT / FROZEN FLESH OR POLISHED BONE?

IS IT SHE IN FLAME AT HEART

IT IS STILL NEWS TO HER THAT PASSION

KALI'S GREATNESS IS INCREASED BY THE ONE WITH MATTED HAIR

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EPIPHANY & THEOPHANY

LIGHT MADE MY BODY TO LIVE

MAKE ME MAD, O MOTHER!

MY LOVER'S EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN

MY MOTHER IS MAD, MY FATHER IS MAD, THEIR TWO DISCIPLES - MAD

O MAKE LATONA WHITE. SMOOTH OUT HER HAIR

O MIND, YOU HAVE LOST THE ROOT

O MOTHER, PUT ON A ROBE & COVER YOURSELF

O TASTE THE / ROSE-PETAL WINE

O THE UNMATCHED BEAUTY OF THIS DISHEVELLED WOMAN

OH LIL! YOU PROMISED ME SECRETS OF MUSHROOM & FERN

OR IS SHE SOFT

OR SHE TAKES YR SHAPE, SHE BITES

SHE FLIES OVER PARTITIONS ON THE

SHE HAS NOT LEFT ME - THO I HAVE PUBLISHED OUR SECRETS

SHE IS NOT HELEN. ON EVERY BRANCH OF THE TREE

SHE IS OPPOSED TO CUSTOM

SHE IS THE SCRUB OAK, JUNIPER

SHE IS THE WIND YOU NEVER LEAVE BEHIND

SHE LAY / ON THE STRAW MAT

SHE SLEEPS ON SHEEPSKINS IN YR DINING ROOM

SHE STRIDES IN BLUE JEANS TO THE CORNER

SHE STRIDES ON THE BATTLEFIELD W/ LOOSENED HAIR

SLEALTH OF THIEVES

SOMETIMES SHE SLIPS SINUOUS THRU GREEN

TARA'S NAME MAKES ALL PROSPERITY VANISH.

ARMS - (BRANCHES / OF THE TREE

BODY ITSELF IS THE VECTOR

BULL / BELONGS TO THE MOON

DAY LAY LIKE A PEARL ON HER LAP

HORNED LADY

LADY IS FRESH AS JASMINE

MEMORY OF FAR THINGS

STICKY NATURE OF

THEY CALL ME DRUNKARD, THOUGH I DRINK NO LIQUOR

THIS WOLF IS BLACK. SHE DOES NOT

THUS LOVE / IN WOLF'S CLOTHING - STALKS

THUS THERE IS

TO BRING THE WHOLE FORM INTO SILENCE

WHAT WOMAN DANCES ON THIS BATTLEGROUND?'

WHEN SHE HOOTS IT MAKES

WHEN WILL HEART LOTUS BLOOM

WHERE DID IT

YOU ARE THE DANCING YOUTH IN A CIRCLE OF MILKMAIDS

YOU ROLL, LISTING THRU GUMMY SHEETS LIKE SHIP

& FROM WHEREVER THOU WILLST THOU GATHEREST ME

& IN ALL THINGS AM I DISPERSED

APPARUIT'

(DREAM OF EMILY DICKINSON AS IMMATERIAL SURF BREAKING)

1 MRN 38.30

4 TAKES, SAME HAIKU

NOTE ON THE ABOVE

PAINTING OF THE LOBA

PART OF THE THOUSAND WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE (PSYCHE TO AMOR)

SPELL FOR FELICIA, THAT SHE COME AWAY

ABYSS

AMERICAN INDIAN ART: FORM AND TRADITION

EXERCISE IN LOVE

AND SHE TO TRISTAN

AND VERCHIEL

AND WHERE THOU ART, I AM

ANNUNCIATION

ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY LETTER, 1988

ANY DAY NOW

APRIL FOOL BIRTHDAY POEM FOR GRANDPA

ARIADNE AS STARMAKER

ARS METALLURGICA

AULA LUCIS

AUTOUR DE

AVE, FR. LOBA

BABYLONIA

BACKYARD

BEFORE COMPLETION

BEING IN LOVE WITH DARKNESS

BELTAIN NOTE

BIOLOGY LESSON

BLACKOUT

BRIEF WYOMING MEDITATION

BUDDHIST NEW YEAR SONG

BUT IN GATHERING ME THOU GATHEREST THYSELF

CANTICLE OF ST. JOAN

CAUSE & EFFECT

CHILDHOOD OF THE LOBA

CHRONOLOGY

CONVERSATIONS: AND FACE THE DAY

CONVERSATIONS: DEAD OF WINTER

CONVERSATIONS: NEW YORK IS A SUMMER FESTIVAL

CONVERSATIONS: NO SAVIORS FOR THIS RACE

CONVERSATIONS: SOME FOOL THING

CONVERSATIONS: THE ART CLASS

CONVERSATIONS: THE CONFERENCE

CONVERSATIONS: THE END OF WINTER

CONVERSATIONS: THE FRENCHMAN

CONVERSATIONS: THE LOVERS

CONVERSATIONS: THE POET

CONVERSATIONS: THE QUARREL

CONVERSATIONS: THE START OF WINTER

CONVERSATIONS: THE VISITOR

CONVERSATIONS: WHILE THEY LAST

CORONATION

COSCIA'S: NOVEMBER 1963

COUGAR NIGHT REPORT

CREVASSE

DAWN SEQUENCE

DEATH & THE LOBA

DEATH SUNYATA CHANT: A RITE FOR PASSING OVER

DEE'S SONG

DEER LEAP

DREAM POEM

DREAM: THE LOBA REVEALS HERSELF

EROS/ANIMUS

FIRST SNOW, KERHONKSON

FLIGHT INTO EGYPT

FOR BELLA AKHMADULINA

FOR BILL VITT

FOR BLAKE

FOR CAMERON

FOR H.D.

FOR PIGPEN

FOR THE DEAD LECTURER

FOR ZELLA, PAINTING

FOUR POETS SPEAK OF HER

FRAGMENTED ADDRESS TO THE FBI

GOOD CLEAN FUN

GOODBYE NKRUMAH

GUARDAVIAZ!

GUINEVERE

GWALCHMAI

HEADLANDS: THE MUSIC

HER DREAM

HERMETIC ASTRONOMY

HINAYANA

HYMN: THE OTHER FACE

I AM THOU & THOU ART I

I CHING

I FAIL AS A DHARMA TEACHER

I GET MY PERIOD, SEPTEMBER 1964

IMAGO MUNDI

IN MEMORY OF MY FIRST CHAPATIS

INANNA: THE EPIPHANY

INFLUENCE (WOOING)

ISEULT ON THE SHIP

ISHTAR

JOHN DEE

JULIANA

LAMENT

LETTER TO JEANNE (AT TASSAJARA)

LETTER TO SHEPPARD

LIGHT POEM

LILITH OF THE STARS

LIMANTOUR BEACH--1

LIMANTOUR BEACH--2

LITANY

LOBA AS EVE

LOBA AS KORE IN THE LABYRINTH OF HER BEAUTY

LOBA IN CHILDBED

LOBA, TO APOLLO, AT THE FOUNTAIN OF HEALING

LOBA: 1

LOBA: THE WINDS OF CHANGE

LORD JIM

LOVE SONG OF THE LOBA

MADNESS OF THE LOBA

MAGICK IN THEORY & PRACTICE

MEDUSA GAZEBO

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 1

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 2

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 3

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 4

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD: 5

MIDSUMMER

MINNESOTA MORNING ODE

MINOR ARCANA

MONTEZUMA

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEM: YOU ARE NOT QUITE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: BUT BABE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: DAMN YOU

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: HERE WITH THE LAKE FOR COMFORT

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: I DON'T FORGET THINGS

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: I HOPE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: IN CASE YOU PUT ME DOWN

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: IN YOUR ARMS BABY

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: NO APETURE OF YOUR BODY

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: NO BABE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: NOTICE TO ALL

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SO BABE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THE WORD YOU WHISPERED

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THEY ALL SAY

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: YOU ARE MY BREAD

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: YOUR TONGUE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: LULLABY

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: POEMS FOR BRET

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: REQUIEM

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SONG AT 24

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SONGS FOR BABIO, UNBORN

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: SONGS TO SPRING

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THE LIFE & TIMES OF MONOS

MORE OR LESS LOVE POEMS: THREE LAMENTS

MY LADY, WE ARE BEING HUNTED

NARROW PATH INTO THE BACK COUNTRY

NATIVITY

NIGHTMARES: 10

NIGHTMARES: 13

NIGHTMARES: 2

NIGHTMARES: 3

NIGHTMARES: 6

NIGHTMARES: 8

NO PROBLEM PARTY POEM

NOTES ON THE ART OF MEMORY

NOTES TOWARD A POEM OF REVOLUTION

NOVEMBER

NOW BORN IN UNIQUENESS, JOIN THE COMMON QUEST

NUMBERS RACKET

ODE TO ELEGANCE

ODE TO KEATS

ON SITTING DOWN TO WRITE, I DECIDE INSTEAD TO GO...

PARACELSUS

PARTHENOS

PERSEPHONE

PERSEPHONE: REPRISE

PETER HARTMAN'S SEQUENCE

PHOSPHOROS

POEM IN PRAISE OF MY HUSBAND (TAOS)

POEM OF REFUSALS

POETICS

POINT OF RIPENING: LUGHNASA

PRAJAPATI

PRAYER TO THE ANCESTORS

PRAYER TO THE MOTHERS

PROPHETISSA: & OUT OF THE THREE THE FOUR, AS ONE

PROPHETISSA: THREE FROM TWO

PROPHETISSA: TWO FROM ONE

RAMADA INN, DENVER

RANT

RANT, FROM A COOL PLACE

REEDGATHERERS: THE LOBA NORTH

REPORT TO APHRODITE (EVENING)

REPRISE

REQUIEM

RESURRECTION

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 1

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 12

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 19

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 20

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 29

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 32

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 36

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 4

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 54. HOW TO BECOME A WALKING ALCHEMICA

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER: 68. LIFE CHANT

RONDEAU FOR THE YULE

SACRED GEOMETRY

SEATTLE SONG

SHE WHO

SHORT NOTE ON THE SPARSENESS OF THE LANGUAGE

SIXTH NOTEBOOK INCANTATION

SKETCHES OF THE LOBA

SOLSTICE 1993

SOME LIES ABOUT THE LOBA

SOME SHAPES OF THE LOBA

SONG FOR BABY-O, UNBORN

SONG OF HELOISE

SONG OF THE DREAM-WOLVES

SONNET SEQUENCE

STUDIES IN LIGHT

SUNWOLF: BELTAIN

SWALLOW SEQUENCE

TAHUTI POEMS

TAKEOFF, FLIGHT 347

TARA

TASSAJARA, 1969

BANQUET

BEACH

BUS RIDE

CLEARING IN AUTUMN

CRITIC REVIEWS LOBA

DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES

FIRE GUARDIAN

GIRL HAD BROUGHT THE WEATHER WITH HER

INTERLOPER

JUNGLE

LOBA ADDRESSES THE GODDESS / OR THE POET AS PRIESTESS...

LOBA COMPARES THE EARTHLY & HEAVENLY MOTHERS

LOBA CONTINUES TO SING

LOBA DANCES

LOBA IN BROOKLYN

LOBA IN FLANDERS

LOBA LONGS FOR REMEMBRANCE IN THE BARDO

LOBA OLD

LOBA PREPARES AN AMULET FOR HER DAUGHTER

LOBA PRIESTESS AS BAG LADY UTTERS RAGGED WARNINGS

LOBA RECOVERS THE MEMORY OF A MARE

LOBA SINGS TO HER CUB

LOBA, IN MAY

MARRIAGE AT CANA

MASK IS THE PATH OF THE STAR

PARTY

POET PRAYS TO THE LOBA

POET, SEEKING HER

POETRY DEAL

PRACTICE OF MAGICAL EVOCATION

RUSES: A COYOTE TALE

SECOND DAUGHTER: LI (BRIGHTNESS)

STARS SHINE FOR US

WINDOW

YEOMAN OF THE GUARD

THEOLOGY BECOMES THE BODY POLITIC

THESE DAYS

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 1

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 10

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 11

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 12

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 2

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 3

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 4

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 5

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 7

THIRTEEN NIGHTMARES: 9

THREE LAMENTS: 1

THREE LAMENTS: 2

THREE LAMENTS: 3

THREE MORE SKETCHES OF THE LOBA

THREE POEMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER: 1

THREE POEMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER: 2

THREE POEMS IN THE CHINESE MANNER: 3

TO MY FATHER

TO MY FATHER - 2

TO TARA

TO THE SPECTRE OF THE LECTURER, LONG DEAD

TO THE UNNAMED BUDDHIST NUN WHO BURNED HERSELF TO DEATH

TRAJECTORY

TRAVELLING, AGAIN

TSOGYAL

TWO DREAM SONGS: DREAM LOVE SONG

TWO DREAM SONGS: SONG OF THE CRAB SPIRIT

TWO FROM GALLUP: 1. SAD IN GALLUP

TWO FROM GALLUP: 2

URSA

VECTOR

VISION OF THE HAG, DEVOURED

VISIT TO KATAGIRI ROSHI

VISITATION: ELIZABETH & MARY

WALPURGIS

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ROT?

WHAT I ATE WHERE

WHAT MORNING IS

WISTERIA LIGHT

WYOMING SERIES

ZERO



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