ecology”.Loba is a multifaceted vision of woman
as a she goddess as she shapeshifts into
multifarious forms such as "Kore, Lilith, Eve, the
Virgin Mary, Kali-Ma, Emily Dickenson, Lilith,
Iseult and Persephone". Loba is a phantasmagoria
of hermetic female realities. The onus is on Di
Prima to summon Loba and preach to the female
antimony. She states in Rant (1984) “There is no
way out of the spiritual battle” and acknowledges
in an interview circa 1978 that it is her position to
“speak the truth when no one else dare to”. She is
a luminary for women, a shaman-poet for
feminists. In Paracelsus she waxes lyrical in the
style of Ferlinghetti and pays homage to “the red
man, healer” and she conjures up myriad semiosis,
drawing upon “of the star soul that paces fierce”.
Here the shamaness or high priestess of the major
arcana tarot signature moves to the fore. In
“Buddhist new year song”…she “in the dawn
confronted Shiva” again drawing upon powerful
female archetypes as guardian spirits.
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