Recollections of my Life As a Woman by Diane Prima

Recollections of my Life As a Woman by Diane 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 lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.

Diane di Prima, a feminist Beat poet, was born in Brooklyn, New York. She spent two years at Swarthmore College before relocating to Manhattan's Greenwich Village and became a writer in the burgeoning Beat movement. Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, and Audre Lorde were among the poets she met there. She relocated to San Francisco in 1968 after joining Timothy Leary's intentional community in upstate New York. Di Prima has written over 40 novels. This Type of Bird Flies Backwards (1958), Loba (1978, extended 1998), and Fragments of a Song: Collected Poems (2001) are among her poetry volumes.

She also wrote the short story collection Dinners and Nightmares (1960), the semi-autobiographical Memoirs of a Beatnik (1968), and the memoir Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (2001). She co-edited the literary magazine The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka from 1961 to 1969. She co-founded the New York Poets Theatre and the Poets Press, as well as Eidolon Publications and the Poets Institute. Di Prima was awarded Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009. She is a Buddhist who co-founded the San Francisco Institute of Mystical and Healing Arts. She has earned grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Committee on Poetry, the Lapis Foundation, and the Center for Aesthetic Development, as well as the National Poetry Association's Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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ISBN 13	9780670851669
ISBN 10	0670851663
Title	Recollections of my Life As a Woman
Author	Diane Prima
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1998-05-28
Number of pages	432
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