Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
2. City Lights Books, publisher

Description

1. 213 pages; 17 cm.

Summary

1. "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. By turns a handbook of countercultural activity and a broadside against the repressive state apparatus, Revolutionary Letters remains one of the vital classics of American poetry. Di Prima has published four subsequent editions (three of them with City Lights), adding new material each time. Revolutionary Letters: Expanded Edition is the latest iteration of this 50-year project, published in a deluxe, board-bound edition and featuring the original cover. Beginning with the poems from the first edition along with what was added along the way, the collection ends with di Prima's latest "letters," written in the decade between 2007-2017"--

Series statement

1. The pocket poets series ; number 27

Uniform title

1. Pocket poets series ; no. 27.

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. American poetry -- 21st century
3. American poetry

Genre/Form

1. Poetry.

Call number

1. JFB 22-25

Note

1. Includes index.

Author

1. Di Prima, Diane, author.

Title

1. Revolutionary letters / Diane di Prima.

Publisher

1. San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2021]

Edition

1. 50th Anniversary Edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. The pocket poets series ; number 27
2. Pocket poets series ; no. 27.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, cover calligraphy.
2. City Lights Books, publisher.

LCCN

1. 2021008208

Other standard identifier

1. 40031020095

ISBN

1. 9780872868793 hardcover
2. 0872868796 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFB 22-25