{"product_id":"revolutionary-letters-50th-anniversary-edition-pocket-poets-series-no-27-city-lights-pocket-poets-series-27-by-diane-di-prima-new","title":"Revolutionary Letters: 50th Anniversary Edition: Pocket Poets Series No. 27 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series, 27) \/ by Diane di Prima (NEW)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCity Lights Books, 2021. Pictorial hardcover. New. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eExpanded 50th anniversary edition of the City Lights classic of eco-feminist-Zen Beat poetry, featuring fifteen new poems. Simultaneously released with Diane di Prima's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSpring and Autumn Annals\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eon the one-year anniversary of her passing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy turns a handbook of countercultural living, a manual for street protest, and a feminist broadside against the repressive state apparatus, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a modern classic, as relevant today as it was at its inception, 50 years ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring 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. In 1971, Lawrence Ferlinghetti published the first collection of these poems in his iconic Pocket Poets Series, and 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. Published in a board-bound edition that proudly features the original edition's cover art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56219353186470,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/revolutionary.webp?v=1772061064","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/revolutionary-letters-50th-anniversary-edition-pocket-poets-series-no-27-city-lights-pocket-poets-series-27-by-diane-di-prima-new","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}