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Filled with anecdotes about her adventures in New York City, Diane di Prima's memoir shows her learning to \"raise her rebellion into art,\" and making her way toward literary success. 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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. 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