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Diane di Prima
Paperback | Pages: 200 pages Rating: 4.17 | 198 Users | 3 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems |
| ISBN: | 0872862372 (ISBN13: 9780872862371) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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"Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes. A great woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity." – Allen Ginsberg"With di Prima's selected poems, Pieces of a Song . . . we have a chance to examine the powerful gifts this deeply imaginative poet has to offer us . . . ." —Jack Foley, Poetry Previews (website)
"A prolific writer generally associated with the Beat Generation, di Prima deserves wider recognition." —Library Journal
"She is not about to be regarded merely as a literary figurehead, but as an ongoing contributor to the arts—a presence whose voice continues to positively impact those who listen, as it has for the last half-century." —Verbicide Magazine
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, and Audre Lorde. After joining Timothy Leary's intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968. One of her collections of poetry, The Poetry Deal, is also published by City Lights Publishers. Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009. She has been awarded the National Poetry Association’s Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement and has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Committee on Poetry, the Lapis Foundation, and the Institute for Aesthetic Development. St. Lawrence University granted her an honorary doctorate.
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| Title | : | Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems |
| Author | : | Diane di Prima |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2001 by City Lights Publishers (first published January 1st 1990) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Literature. American. Womens |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 198 Users | 3 ReviewsEvaluate Of Books Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
I love this. I've tried to give it away to several people, but it keeps floating back to me.Her poetry is absolutely heart wrenching. Why haven't I read this before now?
I've been meaning to read Diane di Prima for a long time, since I love the Beat poets, and I really wasn't disappointed! She's got a lot of the fun and creative wordplay of her compatriots, but (often) with a wildly different perspective. While at times she got a little woozy and her feminism was a little second-wave for my taste, some of her poems were very biting and smart, while others were really beautiful and quite arresting. I dog-eared many of them, particularly her shorter pieces, to
Her poetry is absolutely heart wrenching. Why haven't I read this before now?
Diane Di Prima is an American poet.
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