Recollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane de Prima
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years by Diane de Prima. 2001 Viking, first edition, signed by author, 423 pages. Although di Prima became known as a woman Beat poet in a man's scene, and for a sexually explicit memoir-novel Memoirs of a Beatnick, she went continued to evolve and write for many years after. According to the New York Times review of Recollections "One thing must be said for her: she was able always to discover instinctually where the margins of New York cultural life were and what the inhabitants of that cuckoo and desperate landscape (creative, suffering, brilliant, silly, promiscuous, suicidal, dopey, mad) were up to."
Condition: VG, signed by author, includes promotional materials
Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years by Diane de Prima. 2001 Viking, first edition, signed by author, 423 pages. Although di Prima became known as a woman Beat poet in a man's scene, and for a sexually explicit memoir-novel Memoirs of a Beatnick, she went continued to evolve and write for many years after. According to the New York Times review of Recollections "One thing must be said for her: she was able always to discover instinctually where the margins of New York cultural life were and what the inhabitants of that cuckoo and desperate landscape (creative, suffering, brilliant, silly, promiscuous, suicidal, dopey, mad) were up to."
Condition: VG, signed by author, includes promotional materials