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Expanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's Spring and Autumn Annals on the one-year anniversary of her passing.

By turns a handbook of countercultural living,... Read Full Overview

The first of these poems were written during the active days of the late 1960s, and published by the underground press throughout the US and abroad. They were also used as guerrilla theatre. The poems in this edition address some of the history of the past 20 years and were written... Read Full Overview

Now back in print, this expanded edition of Revolutionary Letters shows di Prima at the peak of her artistry. This seminal work of political and personal philosophy is written in a direct but lyrical style, lending itself to exploring emotions and relationships and the phantoms... Read Full Overview

"I have just realized that the stakes are myself / I have no other / ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life"--"Revolutionary Letter #1"

Fifty years ago, in 1968, Diane di Prima began writing her "revolutionary letters," a series of poems composed of a potent... Read Full Overview