Revolutionary Letters
$49.92
- Paperback
212 pages
- Release Date
5 October 2021
Summary
By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago.
During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began writing her ‘letters’, poems filled with a potent blend of utopian anarchism and Zen-tinged ecological awareness that were circulated via underground newspapers and stapled pamphlets. Fir…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780995716261 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0995716269 |
| Author: | Diane di Prima, Francesca Wade, Sophie Lewis |
| Publisher: | Silver Press |
| Imprint: | Silver Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 212 |
| Release Date: | 5 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 291g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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‘A powerful and ever-urgent call to action…one of di Prima’s best-known, most-loved collections of writing.’ * Frieze *
About The Author
Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima was a feminist Beat poet, born in Brooklyn, New York. Named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009, di Prima was awarded the National Poetry Association’s Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement, and received an honourary doctorate from St. Lawrence University. Di Prima published more than 40 books during her lifetime, including volumes of memoir, poetry and prose. Di Prima lived in northern California until her death in late 2020.
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