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Recollections of my Life As a Woman - Hardcover

Di Prima, Diane

 
9780670851669: Recollections of my Life As a Woman

Synopsis

One of the most important female voices of the Beat generation speaks out in this candid memoir of her life in the 1950s Greenwich Village art and literary scenes. 10,000 first printing.

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Review

"This journey of a young Italian American girl, through the minefields of her childhood in Brooklyn to her breakthrough as a liberated female intellectual decades before the modern women's movement began, is never less than honest and resounds with authenticity." --The Washington Post

"These 'Recollections' are full of light and wonder." --San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Diane Di Prima is the author of thirty-four books of poetry and prose, which have been translated into twenty languages. She lives in San Francisco, where she works as a writer and teacher.

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