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sort list by author | publication date 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... Loba Diane di Prima Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the feminine, hailed by many when it first appeared in 1978 as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. Memoirs of a Beatnik Diane di Prima Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a... 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... 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... San Francisco Beat Talking with the Poets David Meltzer San Francisco Beat is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and...