Diane Di Prima
Author
Series
Pocket poets volume no. 27
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Fifty years ago, in 1968, Diane di Prima began writing her "revolutionary letters," a series of poems composed of a potent blend of utopian anarchism and ecological awareness, projected through a Zen-tinged feminist lens. In 1971, Lawrence Ferlinghetti published them in the first edition of Revolutionary Letters as Number 27 in the City Lights Pocket Poets Series, with a cover featuring his own distinctive calligraphic interpretation of the title....
Author
Series
Poet laureate volume no. 5
Publisher
City Lights Foundation
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
""The Poetry Deal shines with eros and kindness and the reality of inspiration. No American or Anarchist voice or soul-building heart has ever been more clear. The pages are fierce with love and generosity."--Michael McClure, author of Ghost Tantras "The Poetry Deal is fresh flame from a revolutionary fire that continues to burn. Every woman of every age should carry it in a purse with their pepper spray. Diane is the ultimate weapon."--Amber Tamblyn,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.
Publisher
Ferrini Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Poet Charles Olson, wrote poem cycles or, The Maximus Poems, which takes as its subject the polis (the Greek word for city-state) of Gloucester, Massachusetts, which he called home for much of his life. Examining this old fishing port on Cape Anne, just off the coast of Massachusetts, from a vast historical and cosmological perspective, Charles Olson managed a poetic and intellectual feat rivaled by few poets of the last century.
