Recollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di Prima

She lives in San Francisco, where she works as a writer and teacher. San Francisco ChronicleĪbout the Author Diane Di Prima is the author of thirty-four books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into twenty languages.

The Washington Post These 'Recollections' are full of light and wonder. Recollections of My Life as a Woman (Viking cloth 29.95), di Primas 34th. di Prima reveals herself as vulnerable as well as New York street tough. To read Recollections of My Life as a Woman is to enter the very real, often rough world of the bohemian 1950s and early 1960s, often illuminated with a breath taking and surprising beauty despite the grit. This journey of a young Italian American girl, through the minefields of her childhood in Brooklyn to her breakthrough as a liberated female intellectual decades before the modern women's movement began, is never less than honest and resounds with authenticity. Beat the Devil: Poet Diane di Prima published her life story at a corporate. Moving and evocative, casting light on disparate phenomena that are foreer linked in di Prima's life and mind.

What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world. 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. Buy a cheap copy of Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The. 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. 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. She traces her life from her upbringing in an intense Brooklyn Italian family to her emergence as a major force of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia.īook Synopsis In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. About the Book The leading woman writer of the Beat Generation explores her first three decades in this evocative and gritty memoir.

Recollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di Prima