One of The Millions\' Most Anticipated Books of 2021.
She has been awarded the National Poetry Association\'s Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime A.
Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009.
She co-founded the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and founded Eidolon Editions and the Poets Institute.
With Amiri Baraka, she co-edited the literary magazine The Floating Bear from 1961 to 1969.
She is also the author of the short story collection Dinners and Nightmares (1960), the semi-autobiographical Memoirs of a Beatnik (1968), and the memoir Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (2001).
Her poetry collections include This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards (1958), Revolutionary Letters (1971, expanded 2021), the long poem Loba (1978, expanded 1998), and Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems (2001).
A must read and reread for years to come.-- Karen Finley About author(s): Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York and is the author of more than 40 books.
Di Prima\'s poetic memoir of the artist journey is a triumph.
She generously instills in us the call of poetic remembrance as an act of resistance, and gives voice to the marginalized participants in experimental cultural movements that carried courage in creative rebellion while envisioning freedom of the human spirit.
Di Prima\'s observational capacity is profound, her devotion and loyalty assures her deserved place as a national treasure.
Nothing gets past it, not even the \'ballet slippers letting in the snow.\'-- Ana Bozičevic A masterpiece of literary reflection, as quest to archive her dancer friend\'s life, to make art at all costs and the price dearly paid.
Di Prima\'s dancing narrative, propelled and circling at the speed of thought, picking up every name and detailed perception as a rolling tide, fills me with gratitude for the truth of her eye.
An essential 1960s text of visionary rapaciousness.-- Thurston Moore Freddie Herko wished for a third love before he died; and what a love is in this book\'s beholding, saying, and release.
Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives.-- Chris Kraus Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty and grace, in independent dignity, and in the community of Beat consciousness, Diane di Prima\'s Spring and Autumn Annals arrives as a long-lost charm of illuminated meditations to love, life, death, eros and selflessness.
She studies Greek, writes, prepares dinners and feasts, and co-edits Floating Bear magazine.
Moving between the East Village, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon and Stinson Beach with young children, di Prima\'s life is unbelievably rich.
Praise for Spring and Autumn Annals : The book is a treasure.
Masterfully observed and passionately recorded, it offers a uniquely American portrait of the artist as a young woman in the heyday of bohemian New York City.
Lyrical, elegant, and nakedly honest, Spring and Autumn Annals is a moving tribute to a friendship, and to the extraordinary innovation and accomplishments of the period.
The narrative ranges over the decade from 1954--the year di Prima and Herko first met--to 1965, with occasional forays into di Prima\'s memories of growing up in Brooklyn.
For a year, she would go to her study each day, light a stick of incense, and type furiously until it burned itself out.
In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing to Freddie.
In the Autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29.
Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima\'s classic Revolutionary Letters on the one-year anniversary of her passing.
Lyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon.
One of The Millions\' Most Anticipated Books of 2021
