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Revolutionary Letters
Revolutionary Letters shows di Prima at the peak of her artistry. Her direct but lyrical style lends itself to exploring emotions and relationships and the phantoms they leave behind. Her poems and stories reflect an artist who is constantly stretching the limits of autobiographical fiction.
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
May 1st 2007
by Last Gasp
(first published 1971)
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i wanted to read Diane di Prima after discovering that she was someone Audre Lorde was fond of. This is an interesting book of poetry. Some of the poems are more like advice, and always timely in suggestions of basic survival-mode instruction. Other poems are litanies for those lost and damages done to the planet. i was, however, disturbed by Di Prima's exotification of indigenous and Buddhist cultures and beliefs in many of the poems. The edition i have is actually 160 pages, not 114, and is th...more
The letters would arrive every week, torn the same way. I read one by myself, every so often. Stripping the saplings bare, red like your hair, plunging my father's surgeon's scalpel blades into long locked medical drawers.
I painted your fingernails strange for a boy. for the revolution! for the revolution!
Peeling aside the envelope that stuck to the contents ... the words, wet, were blotted on my shelf, still sticky.
What self? I have no self. Revolutionary letters, ripped boat neck girls' swea...more
I painted your fingernails strange for a boy. for the revolution! for the revolution!
Peeling aside the envelope that stuck to the contents ... the words, wet, were blotted on my shelf, still sticky.
What self? I have no self. Revolutionary letters, ripped boat neck girls' swea...more
Urgh. Can't say I cared for it--though there are a few that stand out as really good, the majority of poems in there are just...incoherent hippie bullshit, for lack of better terms. It's like she forgets that the people she's fighting against are also people, and people aren't born in this love-share-togetherness mode of functioning. Then again, like I said, there were a couple that save the collection.
I'm not usually one for poetry, but Diane Di Prima's poems are badass political pieces of art.
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loved it. makes me want to fuck shit up and make love.
i'm not all that in to poetry, but as you can probably tell from my book list, i've been getting more into beat stuff, and this book is really good. this book meant a lot to me, even though that sounds dumb. y'all should definitely read this. some of the poems are dumb, but overall they're really good. she's able to infuse passion into poems about practical things.
I was given this book by my High School English teacher--it pretty much stayed in my back pocket for years until it finally fell apart. I'm glad Last Gasp has finally reissued it.
Overall really solid. Definitely shows its age at times, ie is kinda racist sometimes. Other stuff is beautiful. Some will be in my head for quite a while.
good to have on hand and read every now and then to keep our revolutionary limbs from becoming vestigial deadwood
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