Recollections of My Life As a Woman - The New York Years
Author(s): Diane di Prima
""My earliest sense of what it means to be a woman was learned from my grandmother, Antoinette Mallozzi, and at her knee.... She smelled of lemons and olive oil, garlic and waxes and mysterious herbs. I loved to touch her skin."" "So begins Diane di Prima's memoir, in which she explores the first three decades of her life and how she came to define herself as a woman. She grew up in Brooklyn in the 1930s and '40s in an Italian American family, and only by heroic effort was she able to break away and follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Publishing Group
- : Penguin (Non-Classics)
- : 0.374214
- : 26 March 2002
- : 1.1 Inches X 5.4 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Diane di Prima
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 811/.54 B
- : 432