Pieces of a Song
Di Prima, Diane
Autor: | Di Prima, Diane |
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Themengebiete: | Poetry |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.01.1990 |
EAN: | 9780872862371 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 200 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | City Lights Books |
Untertitel: | Selected Poems |
Produktinformationen "Pieces of a Song"
Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara and Audre Lorde. After joining Timothy Leary's intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968. One of her collections of poetry, The Poetry Deal, is also published by City Lights Publishers. Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009. She has been awarded the National Poetry Association's Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement and has also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Committee on Poetry, the Lapis Foundation and the Institute for Aesthetic Development. St. Lawrence University granted her an honorary doctorate.

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