[Rarebooks] FS: Diane Di Prima TYPED MANUSCRIPT: WHIMSY FROM THE WEST

[Charles Agvent]

DI PRIMA, Diane. TYPED MANUSCRIPT: WHIMSY FROM THE WEST. n.p., [1982]. A 
three-page typed manuscript on three sheets of 8" x 11-1/4" "Con Alma" 
sheets titled "Whimsy from the West" about her experiences in Seattle 
but mainly Tacoma, which she disparages: "Not one kid in the motel went 
trick or treating, but Hallowe'en night dream explained to me that 
Tacoma was a 'gehenna'--was a part of hell. That made everything clear: 
obviously poets know by now how to behave when visiting hell: you sing a 
little & get out of there quick." With several corrections and a 
handwritten note at the bottom of the last page beneath her address: 
"Writ for the Village Voice + rejected as 'parochial.'" Folds from 
mailing. Fine.

Poet Diane Di Prima was a bridge between the "Beat" movement of the 
1950s and the "hippie" counterculture of the 1960s. She was co-founder 
of the New York Poets Theatre, founder of Poets Press, and collaborated 
with Leroi Jones (co-owner of Totem Press) editing THE FLOATING BEAR. 
She is the author of approximately 50 books. (#020064)        $300

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