For many years, she taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder. There are a lot of people writing tributes to my mother right An early influence on her political sensibilities was her immigrant grandfather, who, Ms. di Prima once told the Chicago Tribune, brought over anarchism and a sense of poetry as belonging to everyone., He would say that everyone had read Dante, she recalled, and I pictured all the housewives reading Dante.. My mother would speak verse every day of my life.. Her marriage with Marlowe didnt last, and in 1973 they were divorced. Editors note: Weve reached out to several of Dianes friends and colleagues for their thoughts and reflections upon her passing, and we expect to hear more in the coming days. . Memorie della vita di Jeanne D'Arc quantity. City Lights, the venerable San Francisco bookseller and publisher co-founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, describes her collection Revolutionary Letters (1971) as a series of poems composed of a potent blend of utopian anarchism and ecological awareness, projected through a Zen-tinged feminist lens., Her work is the expression of a strong, sensitive, intelligent woman during more than two decades of social and artistic ferment, reads an entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Roshis eyes alight with the mischievous twinkle that was uniquely his. Kerouac had died in 1969, Burroughs and Ginsberg in 1997. Diane Rose DiPrima (her brother Frank DiPrima said she adjusted the family name to lowercase the di and put a space after it because she thought that that was truer to her Italian ancestors) was born on Aug. 6, 1934, in Brooklyn. felt such a sense of family among the students. That worked with DC in the dining room serving guests. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother became a reading teacher. She married poet/actor Alan Marlowe in 1962, with whom she had a son and daughter; Alexander and Tara Marlowe. The press embraced a do-it-yourself aesthetic. . Foto scioccanti, forse errore umano. Di Prima was born Aug. 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, raised in the Italian-American neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. all sizes & shapes, O may it be various DiPrima, a beat poet and early Suzuki student. Era la prima volta che tutti noi ragazzi vedevamo un esercito, e ai nostri occhi quello spettacolo apparve . Ms. di Prima attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s but, to her parents horror, dropped out and moved to Greenwich Village. I didnt really follow her work or career. In Dinners and Nightmares and particularly in Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969), the explicitness of her writing went well beyond that of her male Beat contemporaries. He was probably hoping to get laid later.). Placing one hand on each of my shoulders he pushes me down as he slowly look like Dicks father, dont you think your kid I have always There is so much I want to ask you, so much that needs to be said. what it means, if what you want is housing, The holiest life that was offered in our world. By her actions, she declared herself a conscientious objector to the bourgeois life of her childhood, quitting college because it distracted her from her artistic pursuits and making a name for herself, first in New York and later in San Francisco, amid the tumult of the counterculture. Suggest an alternative Share your comments about this record [10] In the 1970s, she published the collection Revolutionary Letters, influenced by her time with the Diggers. can feed you pills to keep you weak, or sterile, Una tragedia si abbattuta sulla Grecia nella tarda serata di ieri, poco prima di mezzanotte. They lived together and in the mid-1990s moved to the Excelsior when di Prima became a homeowner. Quelli in cui speravo. Currently you have JavaScript disabled. ISBN: 978-88-6261-856-4 Collana: Classici. ankles your trot toward Adventure Di Prima then went on to Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan. Another attendee of my alma matter Swarthmore. Diane di Prima, feminist writer, poet, and teacher, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 1934. . Therefore, she wrote in "Recollections," "the child I bore" Jeanne di Prima would be mine and . In her memoir, she recalled a Beat party in New York, with alcohol and marijuana readily available, which di Prima left at 11:30 p.m. to tend to her daughter. English-speaking Quakers today are in dire need of some new spiritual books, and I have a top candidate to recommend here. Di Prima read three very short poems from three decades: from the 1950s, Get Your Cut Throat off My Knife; from the 60s, Revolutionary Letter #4; and from the 70s, The Fire Guardian., Its all one sentence, she told the audience, but it goes around in circles.. ordination. Vincent was born in 1590, in Louargat, 22135, Ctes d'Armor, Bretagne, France. A calling. Tradues em contexto de "Casa di Jeanne" en italiano-portugus da Reverso Context : 700 m: Casa di Jeanne d'Arc. As I drooled over Hunckes Journal she stressed the importance of DIYto not allow the perception of amateurish appearance to preclude one from releasing their work into the world.. She went on to win a citywide competition for excellence in Latin and earned a scholarship to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania to major in physics, according to her younger brother, Frank DiPrima, a lawyer in Morristown, N.J. She was absolutely brilliant in every field she studied, said DiPrima, who noted his sister chose to spell her last name differently to correct a misspelling from when their grandparents arrived at Ellis Island from Italy. it flower for us, if you want, if you still want a piece of grey stores, like the shooting stars Quello di cui avevo bisogno. In 2009, Di Prima was named the Poet Laureate of San Francisco. She had been living at an elder care home since 2017 because of various health problems, having moved there from the couples home in the citys Excelsior district. It has been a long, strange journey. New York: Totem . was tattooed with their profound love. vivid, revealing first-person counterpart to the author's highly-praised historical account, Selma 1965 . This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 06:37. Though in honesty, my dear friend, that Conversation becomes less and I am leaving the houses I will never own. Jack wanted me to hang out because everyone was gay and I was straight, di Prima told The Washington Post in 2017. Its not like a career where you retire. In his amazing first book, he way overdid the self-deprecation: Goatwalking is a book for saddlebag or backpack to live . She was truly a pioneer.. (G. E. on the Navaho Ms. di Prima was initially known as one of the Beats; she published her first poetry volume, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, in 1958, two years after Allen Ginsbergs celebrated Howl and Other Poems appeared. Street after her. Certain times, certain epochs, live on in the imagination as more than what they actually were. Di Prima announced her Bay Area arrival with the publication of Memoirs of a Beatnik. This caused a stir in the male-dominated Beat poetry community because in the first few pages, di Prima described her sexual adventures in terms far more graphic than anything published by any of the men. 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For Ms. di Prima, the author of more than 40 works of poetry, prose and theater, writing was like being a hermit or a samurai. Writes Tate Swindell, I attended an event at the Excelsior Library during her term as SF Poet Laureate where Diane passed around works she had published. We are fortunate that her partner, Sheppard Powell, recorded so many performances. so that the shrinks, In the early 1960s, she married Alan Marlowe, a model and actor. She had Parkinsons disease and Sjogrens syndrome, an autoimmune disorder, according to a statement from her family. She continued writing poetry every day until the final two weeks of her life, calling up the creative forces that powered the Beat movement. Examines the strategy & tactics, successes & failures, history & future of faith-based work to end war, and to dismantle militarism and the repression it has spawned. By the time di Prima came to the West Coast, she had already established herself as co-founder of both the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and was co-editor of the literary magazine the Floating Bear. I can taste the struggles. SIX! [1] Her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, was an activist and associated with anarchists Carlo Tresca and Emma Goldman. She taught us to question authority and believe in the power of our creativity. I dont mind that people use the Beat label, she told The Chicago Tribune in 2000. In her poem Song for Baby-O, Unborn she wrote: I wont promise In 1964, they founded Poets Press, publishing books by Herbert Huncke, Frank OHara, and Audre Lorde, along with her own work and Marlowes. Early life and education [ edit] Closed TuesWed. breaking The things I now leave behind . Anyone can read what you share. Her aunt is . For years, she taught at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo. Shed load the kids in a truck with a camper and drive to the Rockies, returning in time for the public school year to start in Point Reyes Station. She was a great sister and anytime I had academic problems in high school, she was there for me.. sitting for three days when you were 13? Nota: Tutto di te un romanzo gay (M/M) autoconclusivo di seconde occasioni. garbanzo bean soup. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Marav [19] Following her death, several websites included the false information that di Prima was a fat acceptance movement supporter, such as a 2020 Vogue article entitled 'Why You Should Know About Diane di Prima, the Beat Poet Decades Ahead of Her Time'. . In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. Diane Rose di Prima was born on Aug. 6, 1934, to an Italian American family in Brooklyn. Di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik was a highly sexualized fictional account of the poet's time with the Beats. It was also around that time that she began to study Sanskrit and Buddhism. The girl meant business. Survivors include her partner of 42 years, Sheppard Powell; her eldest daughter, Jeanne Di Prima, from a relationship with Stefan Baumrin; her daughter Dominique DiPrima, from her relationship with Baraka; two children from her marriage to Marlowe, Alexander Marlowe and Tara Marlowe; a son from her marriage to Fisher, Rudi Di Prima; two brothers; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. When she first came to San Francisco in 1961, at the behest of Michael McClure, she was a single mother of two children, Jeanne di Prima (by Stefan Baumrin) and Dominique di Prima (by Amiri Baraka, then LeRoi Jones). All the while, his eyes are boring into me, pouring into me the I remember when I sat Tangario Print Issues-A Friendly Letter March, 1981 May, 1985 Archive, Print Issues-A Friendly Letter June, 1985 December, 1989 Archive, Print-Issues-A Friendly Letter January, 1990 January, 1993 Archive. Dianne spent a good I I hope you But I was an early long-distance fan of the Beats, and one of her poems, part of a series of Revolutionary Letters, caught my attention. Jeanne's step-father was Biography Early life. From the 1960s on she worked as a photographer and a collage artist, and in the last decade or so of her life she took up watercolor painting. Revolutionary Letters Pocket Poets Series No. Deep dive into time management says we should be asking a different question, Review: Greta Thunberg's 'The Climate Book' warns and educates on looming crisis, S.F. Mother and daughter were featured in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the event.A few years ago, I conducted a full-length interview with Diane before audience at San Franciscos famed Mechanics Institute Library. its better to be American than black . laid down by the square foot During this time she was writing lots of Revolutionary Letters, which went out via the Liberation News Service to underground newspapers around the country. She arrived in San Francisco in 1968, too late for the North Beach Beats, but she established herself as a singular force, a feminist in a poetry culture that was overwhelmingly male. [NOTE: On Garrison Keillors Substack, theres a feature called the Back Room, on which he posts odds and ends from his decades of work. pimps for this decadence, can make with Yoshida too. In 1978, Di Prima moved her family back to San Francisco, and began teaching poetics at New College of California, and later taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts, and later co-founded the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts. Di Prima died on October 25, 2020, at San Francisco General Hospital. Diane di Prima is the most important living poet because of the depth, the range of her imagination and for the number of decades it has thrilled us, from being a child in Brooklyn to being an important member of the new consciousness on the West Coast, McClure, who formed the San Francisco Renaissance and died earlier this year, had told The Chronicle in 2018. like your eyes turned sideways at us Let the hand shake, she said. Dianne dedicated less important the longer I sit with the knowledge, that I have always Dishwashers. City Lights, the venerable San Francisco bookseller and publisher co-founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, described her collection Revolutionary Letters (1971) as a series of poems composed of a potent blend of utopian anarchism and ecological awareness, projected through a Zen-tinged feminist lens., Her work is the expression of a strong, sensitive, intelligent woman during more than two decades of social and artistic ferment, reads an entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She had earlier written the startlingly erotic Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969), which had autobiographical elements but was more novel than memoir. this way (he moves his hands slowly out from my ears) not so fast this Jeanne di Prima, 1991-1992 Item Box: 1 How to Cite; University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections Diane di Prima papers (2019_003) Correspondence Incoming 23. I have already seen it all for the prison it is.. When she finally made it to San Francisco, she went to City Lights Booksellers in North Beach. No matter what I will be [a] poet, she recalled thinking, describing in her memoir the sense of purpose of which she was possessed. Though she had dropped out of college after one year, di Prima found work as a college instructor. Di Prima was the mother of five children: Jeanne di Prima, Dominique di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi di Prima. Her father Francis was a lawyer, and her mother Emma (ne Mallozzi) was a teacher. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. On September 24th, 2018, a fake blog was created to be used as a citation for the page, consisting of a fictional interview in which di Prima reads a poem about worms. Members of the White Panthers and Black Panthers were coming and going all the time, and by the fall of 1969, she says, the FBI was knocking on the door every day. USER RATING FOR DIANE DI PRIMA. [citation needed], From 1980 to 1987, di Prima taught Hermetic and esoteric traditions in poetry, in a short-lived but significant Masters-in-Poetics program at New College of California,[11] which she established together with poets Robert Duncan and David Meltzer. Street after her. on this gutted the enemy, you have chosen I wont promise She is survived by her husband and five children, who all went on to creative endeavors of their own, getting into TV and radio, music and literature: Jeanne DiPrima of Bozeman, Mont. [6][7] According to di Prima, police persistently harassed her due to the nature of her poetry. . [1], She attended academically elite Hunter College High School where she became part of a small group of friends including classmate Audre Lorde who formed a sort of Dead Poets Society calling themselves the Branded. They cut class to roam the city, hanging out in bookstores, sharing their own poetry and holding sances for dead poets.[3]. A French publisher, Maurice Girodias, had contracted her to write an erotic take on the Beat era, and, as the Tribune article noted, Girodias kept sending back the manuscript, scrawled with notations for more sex, and di Prima obliged with fictionalized passages of erotic acrobatics. Yet the book attained cult status as a rare feminist window onto a period when men got most of the attention and sexism was much in evidence. "He was probably hoping to get laid later.". She was 86 years old. with Allen Ginsberg and that crew, it was their actual blood that they sold for In an interview three years ago, di Prima described her impact of her verse on readers as giving them the courage to change their lives. globe On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity by the United States government due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. Her father was a lawyer, and her mother became a reading teacher. Dishwashers. This article was published more than2 years ago. - in Interviews. In the late 1950's and early 1960's Diane di Prima became a member of a group of New York poets and writers, frequently known as the "Beats," who were centered in Greenwich Village. or Indian, or Jap, or PR, where Dick are two poems for Jeanne that Diane wrote. Required fields are marked *. Loba, an epic poem published in installments beginning in 1973, centers on a wolf goddess and is often described as the female answer to Ginsbergs Howl (1955). leaving the quiet unquestioned living and dying, the simple one-love-and-marriage, children, material pleasures, easy securities. He was probably hoping to get laid later.). Bright & natural lifestyle photographer in Winston-Salem, NC. allowed me to begin sitting and studying tea ceremony with Okusan at 12 years Di Prima has two younger brothers, Frank (born November 6, 1937) and Richard (born September 19, 1941) who . Her classic, Revolutionary Letters, was in several volumes and kept going, from No. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. for everyone, you are still the enemy, 11-year-old, as he and Okusan began to make me part of their family I Tutto di te. She told The Chronicle her grandfather spoke Italian to her and taught her to be an anarchist, a political leaning she supported ever after. In November 2017, a user of Wikipedia added the Activism section to the page, consisting of fictional stories such as di Prima having "watched an obese homeless man get beaten by a group of children" and falsely insisting that di Prima was an outspoken fat acceptance movement advocate and Worms Armageddon fan. [18] This edit stayed on Wikipedia for three years, even being occasionally fixed for grammatical errors by users of Wikipedia, until her death in October 2020 when her page was updated to exclude this information and to include accurate details about her involvement with activism. Poet and shopkeeper Lawrence Ferlinghetti had written the introduction to her first book, published in 1957. Ms. di Prima attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s but, to her parents horror, dropped out and moved to Greenwich Village. She was always determined to come home and though she never made it, her voice remained on her answering machine, wavering but clear in a haiku she had written. Haight I was first knocked over by his intellect and insight when I found his 1993 article that Friends, Like so many institutions, AFSC and its managers dont seem to cotton to outside media examination. summers at Tassajara because Diane knew that Roshi had something she wanted. The holiest life that was offered in our world. By her actions, she declared herself a conscientious objector to the bourgeois life of her childhood, quitting college because it distracted her from her artistic pursuits and making a name for herself, first in New York and later in San Francisco, amid the tumult of the counterculture. One of Ms. di Primas best-loved poems, written in 1957 for her first child, Jeanne, is called Song for Baby-o, Unborn: Sweetheart,when you break thruyoull finda poet herenot quite what one would choose.I wont promiseyoull never go hungryor that you wont be sadon this guttedbreakingglobebut I can show youbabyenough to loveto break your heartforever. a small piece of suburbia, green lawn drag queen biography a worthy addition to the citys queer history tomes, Remembering S.F. In 1961 she was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. Plaudits, bouquets, puff pieces for their pet programs? Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934 October 25, 2020), poet, writer, playwright, activist, teacher, San Francisco Poet Laureate emeritus, and one of the foremost luminaries of the Beat Generation, passed away yesterday, October 25th, at the age of 86. Diane di Prima (born August 6, 1934) is an American poet. Examines the neglected role of Progressive Quakers in 19th and 20th century activism -- abolition, women's rights & more. The eye turns. Download for Windows. And moved us back out to It was usual poet stuff talking, reading, smoking, drinking until 11:30 p.m. came around and di Prima said she was going home to relieve her babysitter. brainwash your children, have taken over Co-host on @allthings_podcast. They especially like mentions Diane Di Prima was an anarchist feminist Beatnik poet, who died this past weekend at 86, in San Francisco. Erano tutto ci che odiavo di te. She was married to Alan Marlowe in 1962 (divorced 1969) and in 1972 to Grant Fisher (divorced 1975). In 2017, the Washington Post asked her if Kerouac's comments were indicative of the sexism in the Beat scene. She document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Di Prima's five children feature prominently in her work; she wrote brutally, frankly, and lovingly about aborting a child ("Brass Furnace Going Out"); she was a pioneer in environmental. Traduo Context Corretor Sinnimos Conjugao. The book is out of print. About Danny Rosen Each morning Danny pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita, Colorado. Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to . Unfettered by the conventions of academia or society, she speaks of life outside the mainstream of middle-class America, charting the shifting streams of Americas fringe culture.. [7], She published her major work, the long poem Loba, in 1978, with an enlarged edition in 1998. Ms. di Prima taught at several universities in California and co-founded the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts. In time, she became a Zen Buddhist. We were like teenagers, Powell recalled. In order to post comments, please make sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled, and reload the page. [12], In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.[1]. TV, more plumbing, scientific The heart is in it.. She taught something called Hidden Religion, which was about spiritual and political heresies, he said by email. [4] She spent some time in California at Stinson Beach and Topanga Canyon, returned to New York City, and eventually moved to San Francisco permanently. For Ms. di Prima, the author of more than 40 works of poetry, prose and theater, writing was like being a hermit or a samurai. Among Ms. di Primas most ambitious works was a mythologically and spiritually themed series of poems, under the title Loba, that she added to and revised for decades; in 1998 Penguin published a collected version more than 300 pages long. She traveled in the circles of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti, a rare female voice in a male world, and went on to a long, prolific career in poetry. Survivors include her partner of 42 years, Sheppard Powell; her eldest daughter, Jeanne Di Prima, from a relationship with Stefan Baumrin; her daughter Dominique DiPrima, from her relationship with Baraka; two children from her marriage to Marlowe, Alexander Marlowe and Tara Marlowe; a son from her marriage to Fisher, Rudi Di Prima; two brothers; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. It is what I believe is underneath all the acquisition: things, ideas, passions that create a lie were clinging to so urgently that even a plague and impropriety of this presidents creation of alternative facts /evil seem better than the threat of losing it all that would give us time, maybe, to find out if we really might be real. Its not a generation, she wrote in her poem Keep the Beat., Its a state of mind . Photo: Chris Stewart / Chronicle file photo, Photo: Nancy Stone / Knight-Ridder Tribune, Feeling burned out? The poetry collection Revolutionary Letters grew out of her time with the Diggers; in 1976 she got on stage at the famed "Last Waltz" concert by The Band, and read a one line poem, "Get Yer Cut Throat Off My Knife," before going into "Revolutionary Letter #4": At the press conference when she was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco, she told the crowd about a dream she'd had recently that showed her how all the work was ever written was part of the same big piece that "cuts through time and cuts through space, and we have no idea what it is it's so wonderful and large." Flip-Flop at AFSC: Saraswati In? . His words have awakened my full acknowledgment, consent. Di Prima's works are held at the University of Louisville, Indiana University, Southern Illinois University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[17]. In 1966, she signed a vow of tax resistance to the Vietnam War. . Diane di Prima went home anyway and became one of the prominent voices of the Beat Generation. She published an early prose work titled Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969). Aggiungi alla lista dei desideri. In 1994, I featured Diane and her daughter, Dominique, in Wordland, a monthly massive literary show held in the auditorium of San Franciscos Womens Building. drag artist Doris Fish and the night he did my makeup, Review: In eloquent memoir, a grieving guard finds solace amid a leading museum's artwork, Review: Argentina rules the world, and S.F., in a sci-fi thriller with pigment-specific weapons, Review: Caustic, engaging look at the history of Palo Alto lifts the veil on this haunted town, 'Tiger Mom' Amy Chua writes first novel, 'The Golden Gate', Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Dianne spent a good amount of time at Tassajara with her children. science fiction utopia, if what you want, still is, or can be, schools Scoprite gratuitamente l'albero genealogico di Jeanne , JEANNETTE-MARIE de BEAUFFORT per sapere tutto sulle sue origini e la sua storia familiare. In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. know that the time I spent at Tassajara was incredibly important to me. Join us for a poetry reading featuring Danny Rosen of Lithic Press! She attended Swarthmore College briefly in 1951-1952. She would have made some good trouble in our Quaker Meetings. on these new, jagged hills, SONG TO BABY-O, UNBORN [13] In her memoir, di Prima describes seeing her grandfather speak at a rally in the park, writing: "I am proud of him, and afraid, but mostly amazed. People were just drawn to the dynamo that was Diane.. Diane di Prima, the most prominent woman among the male-dominated Beat poets, who after being immersed in the bohemian swirl of Greenwich Village in the 1950s moved to the West Coast and. But she described maternal responsibilities as imposing on her life the discipline that made writing possible. Shed published a poetry collection, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, and a short story collection, Dinners and Nightmares, which expanded the form by including lists and rants, and colorful descriptions of lowlife Bohemians. Jeanne DiPrima from an email Jeanne sent DC July 14, 2017 It is so good to be back in touch with you. [1] Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen. . old. Revolutionary Letters Pocket Poets Series No. I am leaving the houses I will never own. over the Hudson, wind in the Berkshire pines I felt so important and so connected to everyone when I was allowed to work on it. A lot of people kept being Beat writers in terms of the language they used. wench smile, flicking your thin had, that you and I have been sitting together in Suzuki Roshis lap, Di Prima was 22 when she decided to have a baby outside of marriage as a single mother. 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