By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began writing her 'letters', poems filled with a potent blend of utopian anarchism and Zen-tinged ecological awareness that were circulated via underground newspapers and stapled pamphlets. First published in 1971 by Lawrence ...
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By turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters is a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago. During the tumult of 1968, Beat poet Diane di Prima began writing her 'letters', poems filled with a potent blend of utopian anarchism and Zen-tinged ecological awareness that were circulated via underground newspapers and stapled pamphlets. First published in 1971 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights in the US, di Prima would go on to publish four subsequent editions, expanding the collection each time. During the last years of her life, di Prima got to work on the final iteration of this lifelong project, collecting all of her previously published 'letters' and adding the new work, poems written from 2007 up to the time of her death in October 2020.
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Fine. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very Good. Number 27 in The Pocket Poets Series. Stated second edition, enlarged (paperback). Foxing on edges and rear panel, else very good in pictorial wraps.; 88 pages.
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Very Good. First edition thus. Cover by Ferlinghetti. Illustrated wrappers. Bottom corner slightly creased, covers with a few scratches and modest edgewear, very good. The Pocket Poets Series: Number 27.
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Very Good. First edition. Published simultaneously by the Artists Workshop Press in Ann Arbor, with no known priority. 10pp including covers. Side-staples wrappers. Very Good. Tape ghost to rear cover, some light edge wear, thumbing and toning. Two holograph corrections to #1, and penned beneath letter #12: "A girl named Diane called one hour ago + asked Ben to return the call." As per Gary Lepper's A Bibliographical Introduction to Seventy-Five Modern American Authors, this is supposed to collect Letters #1-15. The present copy is lacking Letters 3-6, 14 and 15, though it is possible they were never bound in as there are no signs of them being extracted. A series of poems written with a blend of beat, utopian anarchism, ecological awareness, Zen and feminism. She would continue to expand on this project over her lifetime, with each subsequent edition containing more poems.
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Fine. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very Good. Book First Edition with no additional printings listed, 1971. Clean and tightly bound with unmarked contents. Several creases to the covers and light shelf wear, still Very Good. Small format 6 3/8" X 5".
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Very Good. Book Fourth Edited Edition, January 1979, expanded with new letters after the Third Edition. Clean and tightly bound with fine, unmarked contents. Light rubbing to gloss, faint imprint of a circle on the cover and a sticker on rear cover, otherwise near fine.