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Dinners & Nightmares

By: Diane Di Prima

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Dinners and Nightmares is a highly experimental collage of genres, including plays, conversations, interior monologues, free verse, and lists, a postmodern text long before that term become mainstreamed. It remains a powerful testament to the complications and triumphs of Beat bohemia for women"--Publisher.

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0867193956

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9780867193954

Revolutionary Letters

By: Diane Di Prima

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Revolutionary Letters

By: Diane Di Prima

This edition is the new volume of DiPrima's classic Revolutionary Letters. There are some new pieces added in and new edits on older pieces, done by the author. A new expanded edition of Loba (twice as long as the 1978 Wingbow Press edition) was published in the Penguin Poets series in August 1998. Her autobiographical memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, was published by Viking in April 2001.

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0867196602

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9780867196603

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

The New York Years

By: Diane di Prima

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Recollections of My Life as a Woman

The New York Years

By: 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 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.

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Penguin

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0140231587

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9780140231588

The Poetry Deal

By: Diane Di Prima

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The Poetry Deal

By: Diane Di Prima

The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.

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City Lights Publishers

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1931404151

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9781931404150

Revolutionary Letters

By: Diane Di Prima

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Spring and Autumn Annals

A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie

By: Diane di Prima

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Spring and Autumn Annals

A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie

By: Diane di Prima

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of 2021. Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing. In the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing to Freddie. For a year, she would go to her study each day, light a stick of incense, and type furiously until it burned itself out. The narrative ranges over the decade from 1954—the year di Prima and Herko first met—to 1965, with occasional forays into di Prima's memories of growing up in Brooklyn. Lyrical, elegant, and nakedly honest, Spring and Autumn Annals is a moving tribute to a friendship, and to the extraordinary innovation and accomplishments of the period. Masterfully observed and passionately recorded, it offers a uniquely American portrait of the artist as a young woman in the heyday of bohemian New York City. Praise for Spring and Autumn Annals: "The book is a treasure. Moving between the East Village, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon and Stinson Beach with young children, di Prima's life is unbelievably rich. She studies Greek, writes, prepares dinners and feasts, and co-edits Floating Bear magazine. Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives."—Chris Kraus "Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty and grace, in independent dignity, and in the community of Beat consciousness, Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals arrives as a long-lost charm of illuminated meditations to love, life, death, eros and selflessness. An essential 1960s text of visionary rapaciousness."—Thurston Moore "Freddie Herko wished for a third love before he died; and what a love is in this book's beholding, saying, and release. Di Prima's dancing narrative, propelled and circling at the speed of thought, picking up every name and detailed perception as a rolling tide, fills me with gratitude for the truth of her eye. Nothing gets past it, not even the 'ballet slippers letting in the snow.'"—Ana Božičević "A masterpiece of literary reflection, as quest to archive her dancer friend's life, to make art at all costs and the price dearly paid. Di Prima's observational capacity is profound, her devotion and loyalty assures her deserved place as a national treasure. She generously instills in us the call of poetic remembrance as an act of resistance, and gives voice to the marginalized participants in experimental cultural movements that carried courage in creative rebellion while envisioning freedom of the human spirit. Di Prima’s poetic memoir of the artist journey is a triumph. A must read and reread for years to come."—Karen Finley

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City Lights Books

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0872868575

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9780872868571

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

The New York Years

By: Diane di Prima

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The New York Years

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Spring and Autumn Annals

A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie

By: Diane di Prima

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A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie

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Symposium of the Whole

A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

By: Jerome Rothenberg,Diane Rothenberg

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Symposium of the Whole

A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

By: Jerome Rothenberg,Diane Rothenberg

Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled “primitive” and “savage,” many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, this complex redefinition of cultural and intellectual values has involved a rarely acknowledged collaboration between poets and scholars, who together have challenged the narrow view of literature that has excluded so many traditions. In this gathering, the Rothenbergs follow the idea of an ethnopoetics from predecessors such as Vico, Blake, Thoreau, and Tzara to more recent essays and manifestos by poets and social thinkers such as Olson, Eliade, Snyder, Turner, and Baraka. The themes range widely, from the divergence of oral and written cultures to the shaman as proto-poet and the reemergence of suppressed and rejected forms and images: the goddess, the trickster, and the “human universe.” The book’s three ethnographic sections demonstrate how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Among the poetries discussed are the language of magic; West African drum language and poetry; the Huichol Indian language of reversals; chance operations in African divination poetry; picture-writings and action-writings from Australia and Africa; and American Indian sacred-clown dramas and traditional trickster narratives. The cumulative effect is a new reading of the poetic past and present—in the editors’ words, “a changed paradigm of what poetry was or now could come to be.”

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Univ of California Press

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0520966341

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9780520966345

Dinners & Nightmares

By: Diane Di Prima

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Loba

By: Diane di Prima

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Loba

By: Diane di Prima

Loba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance.

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1101161795

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The Poetry Deal

By: Diane Di Prima

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The Poetry Deal

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The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.

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Benozzo Gozzoli

Tradition and Innovation in Renaissance Painting

By: Diane Cole Ahl,Benozzo Gozzoli,Benozzo (di Lese)

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Benozzo Gozzoli

Tradition and Innovation in Renaissance Painting

By: Diane Cole Ahl,Benozzo Gozzoli,Benozzo (di Lese)

Providing a reassessment of Benozzo Gozzoli, one of the most esteemed and prolific artists of the Renaissance, this work focuses on the social and cultural context within which he worked. The book provides stylistic and technical discussions of each of his major works.

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Yale University Press

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0300066996

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9780300066999

Prepare Your Taxes with TurboTax Deluxe in a Weekend

For Tax Year 1998

By: Diane Tinney

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Prepare Your Taxes with TurboTax Deluxe in a Weekend

For Tax Year 1998

By: Diane Tinney

Includes a clear, concise introduction to tax concepts--providing the foundation necessary for efficient tax preparation and planning and a glossary of terms defined in plain English.

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Prima Lifestyles

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0761519653

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9780761519652

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Dinners & Nightmares

Dinners & Nightmares

Revolutionary Letters

Revolutionary Letters

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

The Poetry Deal

The Poetry Deal

Revolutionary Letters

Revolutionary Letters

Spring and Autumn Annals

Spring and Autumn Annals

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

Recollections of My Life as a Woman

Spring and Autumn Annals

Spring and Autumn Annals

Symposium of the Whole

Symposium of the Whole

Dinners & Nightmares

Dinners & Nightmares

Loba

Loba

The Poetry Deal

The Poetry Deal

Benozzo Gozzoli

Benozzo Gozzoli

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