Poetry, painting, dance, and theatre flowed into one another, and well-known figures from all of those worlds- including Merce Cunningham, Frank O'Hara, Audre Lord, Yvonne Rainer, and Franz Kline- move through her story." (from front flap) A memoir by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), among the primary- and one of the few female- original poets of the Beat Generation & Beyond. Recollections of My Life as a Woman chronicles the intense, creative cauldron of those years as the Beat movement emerged on both coasts and the country accelerated into the sixties. Immersing herself in the exciting world of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a major force, becoming a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when that was unheard of. She grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s in an Italian American family, and only by heroic effort was she able to break away and follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school.
".Diane di Prima's evocative memoir, in which she explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life and how she came to define herself as a woman. First Hardcover Edition First Softcover Edition.
New York, NY: Viking/ The Penguin Group, 2001. Di Prima, Diane Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (Two Editions)
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