Memoirs of a Beatnik
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Memoirs of a Beatnik


Diane Di Prima



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Revolutionary Letters
Diane Di Prima
Revolutionary Letters is an American classic arising from the utopian anarchism for which Diane di Prima has long been a spokesperson. The first of these poems were written during the active days of the late 1960s...



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Recollections of My Life as a Woman
The New York Years
Diane Di Prima
In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a...



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Dinners and Nightmares
Diane Di Prima
Diane di Prima has long been recognized as one of the strongest voices of her generation, and one of the few women who was able to break through the male-dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of lowlife bohemians and revolutionary mentalities...



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Pieces of a Song
Selected Poems
Diane Di Prima
"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...