we are feral rare
as mountain wolves
our hearts are pure
& stupid we go down
pitted against our own
[October 5, 2001]
Diane di Prima is a poet, teacher, psychic, playwright, healer, magician, anarchist, student of alchemy and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the mother of five, grandmother of three and a great-grandmother. An new edition of her Revolutionary Letters with thirty new poems is being published by Last Gasp Press this Fall, and Penguin is publishing Opening to the Poem (essays and exercises for beginning poets) next Spring. Her recent books include an autobiography, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, and her epic poem Loba: Books I and II (both from Penguin), and two chapbooks: Towers Down and The Ones I Used to Laugh With. She lives in San Francisco where she teaches privately.
