+++ I really ranted on January 3 to a new book group I started at LibraryThing called ‘Only in Victoria’ about the Pacific Rim Review of Books (PRRB), Ekstasis Editions, and my friends Richard Olafson and Carole Sokolof…at least, I think we are still friends! I suggest in no uncertain terms that I think that Ekstasis needs to get off the cultural welfare they receive from the Canada Council, taking a bow to the old cranky arguments of Brian Fawcett at the Literary Review of Canada. Somehow, good old Diane di Prima, that wizened crone of the City Lights Books Beat movement, gets slightly wounded in the crossfire, an innocent bystander, if you will, of the Canadian cultural wars, because PRRB used her for a cover pic on their latest Winter number. +++ www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=26857
Diane di Prima, Subsidized Revolution & Pacific Rim Book Review @ LibraryThing
January 20, 2008 · 2 Comments
Categories: Bottom Drawer · CAFE CHAT · Hippy history · Media critical analysis · Nostalgia · RANT · Speculation · abused taxpayers · memoir
Tagged: Beats, Canada Council, Carole Sokolof, City Lights Books, Diane di Prima, Ekstasis Editions, LibraryThing, Pacific Rim Review of Books, Richard Olafson
2 responses so far ↓
Richard Olafson // February 18, 2008 at 3:46 am |
Dear Gregory,
Thank you for your opinions and comments on the PRRB. However, we have not received any government funding for this project what so ever. Your entire Rant is in a grave intellectual error, and therefor your motives are questionable.
I did not have the benefit of growing up with wealthy parents. As you remember your Dad subsidied Baba Books.
Sorry, but it has to be said.
Richard
Jerry Mazza // August 14, 2008 at 5:07 am |
I love Diane di Prima. She is a great poet. She was born in Brooklyn. She’s Italian. What more could I ask for. She had five kids. She wandered the world like the wind singing through mountains, trees, cities, lost places… I am just finishing her Pieces Of A Song…lovely book… reading the Loba poems, amazing quickness of mind and referene, colloquial, classic, street kid genius.
That’s all folks,
JM.