{"product_id":"the-poetry-deal","title":"The Poetry Deal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFramed by two passionate, and critical, prose statements assessing her adopted home city, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Poetry Deal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 Chögyam 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Brooklyn in 1934, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDiane di Prima\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Floating Bear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with her lover LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). In the late '60s, she moved to San Francisco, where she would publish her groundbreaking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1971) with City Lights. Her other important books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMemoirs of a Beatnik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePieces of a Dream\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRecollections of My Life as a Woman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eLoba\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She was named San Francisco Poet Laureate in 2009.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Foundation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49234081055050,"sku":"9781931404150","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0754\/5474\/2858\/files\/61eCp17pLpL._SL1500.jpg?v=1726418895","url":"https:\/\/archive-books-berlin.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poetry-deal","provider":"Archive Souq","version":"1.0","type":"link"}