"And yet, when you refer to “the Beats,” to whom are you typically referring? Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg. Corso and Snyder, maybe. You rarely refer to Diane Di Prima. Which is one of the key things about being a “great woman poet,” and not a “great poet,” about being the girl in the scene: We don’t talk about Diane Di Prima without mentioning the Beats. But we usually talk about the Beats without mentioning Di Prima."
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