The Poetry Deal [Paperback]

The Poetry Dealshines 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 ofGhost Tantras

The Poetry Dealis 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 ofDark 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 ofWaifs 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 ofRise 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

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