Allagar le Diane di Prima (2023)

for narrator, voice, saxophone, piano, percussion and tape

Guth radacach i nuafhilíocht Mheiriceá a bhí ag Diane di Prima, glór cumhachtach feimineach nuair ba iad na fir is mó a labhair ar son ghlúin na bhfilí Beat. Lámhleabhar na hagóidíochta frithchultúrtha a bhí sa leabhar aici Revolutionary Letters (1971) a léiríonn samhlaíocht útóipeach agus aird á tarraingt aici ar an éiceolaíocht. Sa dán eipiciúil Loba, ar tour-de-force é, tarraingíonn sí ar go leor miotas chun spiorad an fhaolchú mar bhandia a chruthú le cantaireacht orthaí. ‘Fuascailteach agus ar maos i bhfuil, dán do gach ré,' a thug Robert Hunter air, liriceoir Grateful Dead.

Speaking to her spirit from west Kerry, poet Dairena Ní Chinnéide embarks on an intimate dialogue with the late radical feminist poet Diane di Prima. Ní Chinnéide's response verses, diary entries and Irish translations of poems from di Prima's Loba and Revolutionary Letters collections are set to music by Nick Roth for ONNO, featuring singer Olesya Zdorovetska and visuals by graphic artist Margaret Lonergan.