New York: Totem Press, 1958. First Edition. 12mo (17.3 cm), pp. [iv], 1 – 43, [1]. White cardstock wraps with black drawings by Fred Herko. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Light soiling and reading wear, else fine. A scarce copy of the author’s first book. No copies currently listed in the trade. [Lepper, p. 149].
Di Prima associated with the Beat poet scene. A colleague of Amiri Baraka, she corresponded with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen as a teenager, and was friends during high school with Audre Lourde, with whom she “formed a sort of Dead Poets Society calling themselves ‘the Branded.’ They cut class to roam the city, hanging out in bookstores, sharing their own poetry and holding séances for dead poets.” (Wikipedia) Very good. Staplebound wraps.
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