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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years Paperback - 2002
by Diane Di Prima
The leading woman writer of the Beat Generation explores her first three decades in this evocative and gritty memoir. She traces her life from her upbringing in an intense Brooklyn Italian family to her emergence as a major force of Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia.
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In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.
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- Title Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
- Author Diane Di Prima
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date March 26, 2002
- ISBN 9780140231588 / 0140231587
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.38 x 0.92 in (20.22 x 13.67 x 2.34 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Italian
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), Poets, American - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00043893
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"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
"These 'Recollections' are full of light and wonder." San Francisco Chronicle
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