{"product_id":"spring-and-autumn-annals-a-celebration-of-the-seasons-for-freddie-paperback","title":"Spring and Autumn Annals: A Celebration of the Seasons for Freddie - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDiane Di Prima\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAmmiel Alcalay\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLyrical and unforgettable, part elegy and part memoir, we present a previously unpublished masterpiece from the Beat Generation icon. Simultaneously released with an expanded edition of di Prima's classic \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/em\u003e on the one-year anniversary of her passing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the autumn of 1964, Diane di Prima was a young poet living in New York when her dearest friend, dancer, choreographer, and Warhol Factory member, Freddie Herko, leapt from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment to a sudden, dramatic, and tragic death at the age of 29. In her shock and grief, di Prima began a daily practice of writing to Freddie. For a year, she would go to her study each day, light a stick of incense, and type furiously until it burned itself out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrative ranges over the decade from 1954--the year di Prima and Herko first met--to 1965, with occasional forays into di Prima's memories of growing up in Brooklyn. Lyrical, elegant, and nakedly honest, \u003cem\u003eSpring and Autumn Annals\u003c\/em\u003e is a moving tribute to a friendship, and to the extraordinary innovation and accomplishments of the period. Masterfully observed and passionately recorded, it offers a uniquely American portrait of the artist as a young woman in the heyday of bohemian New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eThe Millions'\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Books of 2021.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSpring and Autumn Annals\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book is a treasure. Moving between the East Village, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon and Stinson Beach with young children, di Prima's life is unbelievably rich. She studies Greek, writes, prepares dinners and feasts, and co-edits \u003cem\u003eFloating Bear\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. Diane di Prima is one of the greatest writers of her generation, and this book offers a window into its lives.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eChris Kraus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Extolled by a writer who radically devoted herself to the experiential truth of beauty and intellect, in poverty and grace, in independent dignity, and in the community of Beat consciousness, Diane di Prima's \u003cem\u003eSpring and Autumn Annals\u003c\/em\u003e arrives as a long-lost charm of illuminated meditations to love, life, death, eros and selflessness. An essential 1960s text of visionary rapaciousness.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eThurston Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Freddie Herko wished for a third love before he died; and what a love is in this book's beholding, saying, and release. Di Prima's dancing narrative, propelled and circling at the speed of thought, picking up every name and detailed perception as a rolling tide, fills me with gratitude for the truth of her eye. Nothing gets past it, not even the 'ballet slippers letting in the snow.'\"--\u003cstrong\u003eAna Bozičevic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterpiece of literary reflection, as quest to archive her dancer friend's life, to make art at all costs and the price dearly paid. Di Prima's observational capacity is profound, her devotion and loyalty assures her deserved place as a national treasure. She generously instills in us the call of poetic remembrance as an act of resistance, and gives voice to the marginalized participants in experimental cultural movements that carried courage in creative rebellion while envisioning freedom of the human spirit. Di Prima's poetic memoir of the artist journey is a triumph. A must read and reread for years to come.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Finley\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York and is the author of more than 40 books. Her poetry collections include \u003cem\u003eThis Kind of Bird Flies Backwards\u003c\/em\u003e (1958), \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Letters\u003c\/em\u003e (1971, expanded 2021), the long poem \u003cem\u003eLoba\u003c\/em\u003e (1978, expanded 1998), and \u003cem\u003ePieces of a Song: Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). She is also the author of the short story collection \u003cem\u003eDinners and Nightmares\u003c\/em\u003e (1960), the semi-autobiographical \u003cem\u003eMemoirs of a Beatnik \u003c\/em\u003e(1968), and the memoir \u003cem\u003eRecollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years\u003c\/em\u003e (2001). With Amiri Baraka, she co-edited the literary magazine \u003cem\u003eThe Floating Bear\u003c\/em\u003e from 1961 to 1969. She co-founded the Poets Press and the New York Poets Theatre and founded Eidolon Editions and the Poets Institute. Di Prima was named Poet Laureate of San Francisco in 2009. She has been awarded the National Poetry Association's Lifetime Service Award and the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement and had also received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Committee on Poetry, the Lapis Foundation, and the Institute for Aesthetic Development. St. Lawrence University granted her an honorary doctorate. Di Prima lived in Northern California and passed away on October 25th, 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.87 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767948181792,"sku":"9780872868809","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9c3c563cf9f932a7534cb7d1de133f24.webp?v=1780321242","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/spring-and-autumn-annals-a-celebration-of-the-seasons-for-freddie-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}