Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems

by Diane di Prima

Book Overview

Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara and Audre Lorde. After joining Timothy Leary's intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968. One of her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872862372
• ISBN13: 9780872862371
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Pieces of a Song: Printed Divinity

To say that this collection of poems is "delightful" would be the understatement of the decade. Diane DiPrima quickly knocked her way up to being one of my favorite poets in the space of 5 days (the time it took for me to read this book !). These poems are bohemian and contemporary. They're forlorn in a controlled way, romantic but smirking, and strong willed. DiPrima truly outdid herself penning every word.