Revolutionary Letters
Francesca Wade author Diane Di Prima author Sophie Lewis editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Silver Press
Published:5th Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
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‘Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation.’ — Chris Kraus
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.
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. First published in 1971 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights in the US, di Prima would go on to publish four subsequent editions, expanding the collection each time. During the last years of her life, di Prima got to work on the final iteration of this lifelong project, collecting all of her previously published ‘letters’ and adding the new work, poems written from 2007 up to the time of her death in October 2020.
‘A powerful and ever-urgent call to action...one of di Prima’s best-known, most-loved collections of writing.’
* FrieISBN: 9780995716261
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212 pages
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