It begins in fall, when it happened: “Fall.
Tracking the passage of constellations in the night sky around a fixed point: the death of her friend Herko is that point, to whom the book is addressed. If you followed Di Prima dalliance with Buddhism, you might describe the work as a mandala, or like a celestial calendar. You might begin reading the di Prima’s Annals knowing that Herko, at the age of 29, leaped to his death from a New York City apartment. But if you want to learn what Herko meant, read di Prima’s Spring and Autumn Annals. And Diane di Prima’s Recollections of My Life as a Woman will give you a sense of who Herko was.
Jose Muñoz will expound on Herko’s queer avantgarde in Cruising Utopia. Sally Banes’s Democracy’s Body: Judson Dance Theater, 1962–1964 will give you a sense of the importance of Freddie Herko - the dancer and an actor in many of Andy Warhol’s earliest films - in the experimental dance scene of Greenwich Village.
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