Poetry (Hokusai, Death Poems in October)

Anne Carson teaches Greek for a living, previously at Princeton and presently at McGill University in Montreal. An anthology of her collected works, Plain Water, will be brought out by Knopf this year. She will appear as co-host on a PBS television documentary, The Nobel Legacy, to be released this...

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Main Authors: Carson, Anne, diPrima, Diane
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Kwan Um School of Zen 1994
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Summary:Anne Carson teaches Greek for a living, previously at Princeton and presently at McGill University in Montreal. An anthology of her collected works, Plain Water, will be brought out by Knopf this year. She will appear as co-host on a PBS television documentary, The Nobel Legacy, to be released this October. Diane di Prima lived and wrote in Manhattan for many years, where she became a significant figure in the Beat movement. For the past twenty-five years she has lived and worked in northern California, where she studied Zen Buddhism, raised five children, and now practices Vajrayana. She has taught poetry at the Naropa Institute for many years. Her Selected Poems was published by North Atlantic in 1976. She is currently at work on an autobiographical memoir, My Life as a Woman