Revolutionary letters / Diane di Prima.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Prima, Diane, author.

Series:

Pocket poets series ; no. 27.

The pocket poets series ; No. 27

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

213 pages ; 16 cm.

Edition:

50th anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2021]

Summary:

"Fifty years ago, in 1968, Diane di Prima began writing her "revolutionary letters," a series of poems composed of a potent blend of utopian anarchism and ecological awareness, projected through a Zen-tinged feminist lens. In 1971, Lawrence Ferlinghetti published them in the first edition of Revolutionary Letters as Number 27 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series, with a cover featuring his own distinctive calligraphic interpretation of the title. By turns a handbook of countercultural activity and a broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters remains one of the vital classics of American poetry. Di Prima has published four subsequent editions (three of them with City Lights), adding new material each time. Revolutionary Letters: Expanded Edition is the latest iteration of this 50-year project, published in a deluxe, board-bound edition and featuring the original cover. Beginning with the poems from the first edition along with what was added along the way, the collection ends with di Prima's latest "letters," written in the decade between 2007-2017"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780872868793

0872868796

OCLC:

1268135114