Dinners and Nightmares

by Diane Di Prima

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Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of lowlife Bohemians and revolutionary mentalities shatter the conservative myths of the Fifties and lay bare the emerging sexual experimentation that would shape the Sixties.… (more)

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di Prima has a direct way of saying things that leaves you wondering what people are talking about when they say modern poets are obscure. This is all good poetry, some of it great, and in a lot of different forms. "What I Ate Where" is one of those poems that tells so much of what the time was like and tells it superbly. (

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Made up of numerous fragments, this is an interesting work with a clearly female and beat voice to guide its pages. The short stories in the end and the love poetry in the middle are the most powerful works here, though other more journalish entries drive the book as a whole and contain slips of reality that are worth examining. (

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Last Gasp proud to bring back this early. Boat classic Diane di Prima has long been recognized as on of the strongest voice of her generation, and one of the few women wh was able to break through the male dominated beatnik scene. Her poetic portrayal of lowlife Bohemians and revolutionary mentalities shatter the conservative myths of the Fifties and lay bare the emerging sexual experimentation that would shape the Sixties.

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