Pieces of a Song

Selected Poems
Monumental collection by this Beat poet, political activist, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner.
“Diane di Prima, revolutionary activist of the 1960s Beat literary renaissance, heroic in life and poetics: a learned humorous bohemian, classically educated and twentieth-century radical, her writing, informed by Buddhist equanimity, is exemplary in imagist, political and mystical modes. A great woman poet in second half of American century, she broke barriers of race-class identity, delivered a major body of verse brilliant in its particularity.” — Allen Ginsberg “With di Prima’s selected poems, Pieces of a Song .we have a chance to examine the powerful gifts this deeply imaginative poet has to offer us .” –Jack Foley, Poetry Previews (website) “A prolific writer generally associated with the Beat Generation, di Prima deserves wider recognition.” –Library Journal “She is not about to be regarded merely as a literary figu