"The Poetry Deal: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 5 gives us
di Prima's vision as she looks back at a life lived truly and looks
out at a society she still has hope for even as it grieves its
failings."--David Nilsen, Fourth & Sycamore: A Literary Journal
"The Poetry Deal shines with eros and kindness and the reality of
inspiration. No American or Anarchist voice or soul-building heart
has ever been more clear. The pages are fierce with love and
generosity."--Michael McClure, author of Ghost Tantras "The Poetry
Deal is fresh flame from a revolutionary fire that continues to
burn. Every woman of every age should carry it in a purse with
their pepper spray. Diane is the ultimate weapon."--Amber Tamblyn,
author of Dark Sparkler "In her latest collection as San Francisco
Poet Laureate, di Prima is again at the height of her powers, with
'the act of writing itself more compelling than ever.'"--Micah
Ballard, author of Waifs and Strays "I return to this book again
and again to remember what it means to own and further a poetic and
political lineage."--Ana Bozicevic, author of Rise in the Fall "The
Poetry Deal [is] an urgent success of the highest order ...Diane di
Prima should always be high on the American poetry play list.
"--Barbara Berman, The Rumpus "Recounting a life in poetry, her
commitment to progressive thought and action, and a half-century of
Bay Area culture, crises, and change, di Prima writes at the top of
her game ...di Prima recalls the time an institutionalized Ezra
Pound told her that 'poets have to eat'; rarely has a poet left so
much bread on the table for future poets."--*Starred Review,
Publishers Weekly "This is a volume that traverses the specific and
reaches the universal. She marks her poems with great strength and
utmost sensitivity. They are poems that live in real time; not
cyberspace. di Prima's poetry is well-lived and poetry worth living
in. She is a gifted teacher enjoining the reader to face life's
lessons for the attendant dilemmas of old age. Carry this book with
you. It will arm you with continuous insight and flaming
provocation."--Robert Sutherland-Cohen The Poetry Deal is the first
full-length collection of individual poems in decades from
legendary feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima. Framed by two
passionate, and critical, prose statements assessing her adopted
home city, The Poetry Deal is a collection of poems that provide a
personal and political look at forty years of Bay Area culture.
Often elegiac in tone, the book captures the poet's sense of loss
as she chronicles the deaths of friends from the AIDS epidemic as
well as the passing of illustrious countercultural colleagues like
Philip Whalen, Pigpen from the Grateful Dead, and Kirby Doyle. She
also recalls and mourns out-of-town inspirations like Chogyam
Trungpa Rinpoche, Audre Lorde, and Ezra Pound. Yet even as she
laments the state of her city today, she finds triumph and solace
in her own relationships, the marriages of her friends, the
endurance of City Lights, and other symbols of San Francisco's
heritage. Born in Brooklyn in 1934, Diane di Prima emerged as a
member of the Beat Generation in New York in the late '50s; in the
early '60s, she founded the important mimeo magazine The Floating
Bear with her lover LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). In the late '60s,
she moved to San Francisco, where she would publish her
groundbreaking Revolutionary Letters (1971) with City Lights. Her
other important books include Memoirs of a Beatnik, Pieces of a
Dream, Recollections of My Life as a Woman, and Loba. She was named
San Francisco Poet
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