The other early influence on di Prima was her grandfather, Dominic Mallozzi, who teaches her to love opera, to admire Dante, to be passionate about life. I loved to touch her skin.” It is from her grandmother that di Prima gets her sense that it is women who attend to all the “practical aspects of life(p.2)” Women are grounded and while they may be visionary as well, they must keep things going on an everyday level.
Recollections opens with these lines: “My earliest sense of what it means to be a woman was learned from my grandmother Antoinette Mallozzi, at her knee….She smelled of lemons and olive oil, garlic and waxes and mysterious herbs. She also allows us a glimpse of her sense of humor and wry wit, qualities that will be evident in the pages of this remarkable book. Most everybody is.”Įven in that one line, Diane di Prima’s commitment to truth and accuracy is evident, though she makes it clear that her memories of the past are filtered through her vision.
“Close as I can, this is how I remember it.
On Recollections of My Life as a Woman - Diane di Prima Feature - Big Bridgeĭiane di Prima begins her memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, by first warning us in her author’s note about the difficulty of capturing the past and memory.
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