Books written by Diane di Prima

Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems

"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 ...
The Poetry Deal

The first full-length collection of new poems in decades from San Francisco's groundbreaking feminist Beat poet.
Revolutionary Letters: Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27

Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing.
Nächte in New York: Erotische Erinnerungen

Di Primas erotisches Porträt einer Ära erschien in der legendären Olympia Press in Paris.
Amerarcana 2010: A Bird and Beckett Review

Amerarcana 2010: A Bird and Beckett Review
More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane Di Prima

A poetry collection by friends, fans, and students of the late Diane di Prima furthering her call for revolution. This book features work by Anne Waldman, Lisa Jarnot, and Andrew Schelling among many others.
The Floating Bear

Includes a special number published in the summer of 1971 called "The Intrepid-Bear issue: Intrepid 20/Floating Bear 38."
The Floating Bear: A Newsletter

The Floating Bear: A Newsletter
Revolutionary Letters, Etc., 1966-1978

Now back in print, this expanded edition of Revolutionary Letters shows di Prima at the peak of her artistry. This seminal work of political and personal philosophy is written in...
Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie

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 ...
Memoirs of a Beatnik

Memoirs of a Beatnik is an account of a young artist coming of age sensually and intellectually. The book grew out of the author's own experience as a bold and independent woman who dropped out of college at the age of 18 in order to write.
Revolutionary Letters

REVOLUTIONARY LETTER # 23 A lack of faith is simply a lack of courage one who says ' I wish I could believe that means simply that he is coward ... on one more pleasure trip REVOLUTIONARY LETTER # 24 Have you thought about the American 36.
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years : a Memoir

In this rich and passionate memoir, influential poet Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Only by heroic effort was she able to break away...
Loba

the rose, the thorn, the thistle the rose, the thorn, the myrtle the lily, the thorn, the thistle the lily & the myrtle the lily, the rose, the thistle the lily, the thistle, the myrtle The wind bent the palm trees again the room was ...
Dinners & Nightmares

Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene.
Loba: Parts I-VIII

Loba: Parts I-VIII
Poems Are Angels

Poems Are Angels
Haiku

The first bound book of Haiku, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the poems' printing by Herms in 1967 and the formation of his LOVƎ Press, includes reproductions of Diane di Prima's 32 short poems and Herms's thirty-six woodcuts from ...
On the Mesa: An Anthology of Bolinas Writers

This is a gathering of poets, writers and artists living on or around the mesa in Bolinas, California.
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years

In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life.