I discovered City Lights in '71 while in college. Took me 40 years to get there. How wonderful it must have been to experience it in the early days of it.
Diane di Prima. WOW. What else have I been missing!? I feel ashamed. I did not know about her. Beautiful soul. Now I've read some book reviews on the internet. Found some of her poetry too. But not a single book in the library - not in the whole Helsinki-area. None among the oldbooks stores either. Not in the whole country. (That is Finland.)And it made me wonder. Why such a silence? Such a huge void. I have always felt the feminists in my country got it all wrong, but now I'm convinced. Thank God there is bookshops on the internet. Thank God for Poetic Outlaws. This site is like a torch in the great void.
I discovered City Lights in '71 while in college. Took me 40 years to get there. How wonderful it must have been to experience it in the early days of it.
Diane di Prima. WOW. What else have I been missing!? I feel ashamed. I did not know about her. Beautiful soul. Now I've read some book reviews on the internet. Found some of her poetry too. But not a single book in the library - not in the whole Helsinki-area. None among the oldbooks stores either. Not in the whole country. (That is Finland.)And it made me wonder. Why such a silence? Such a huge void. I have always felt the feminists in my country got it all wrong, but now I'm convinced. Thank God there is bookshops on the internet. Thank God for Poetic Outlaws. This site is like a torch in the great void.
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Hard to believe Ferlingetti only recently died. Published a novel/memoir thing. I love reading about this era.
I know right? What a long, glorious life he lived.
City Lights is a flame to me as a moth. Almost the first thing I’ve done on several visits to SF. Long may it outlive its founder.
This is so lovely. I've never been but the way di Prima describes it...draws you into the space, really.