Recollections of my life as a woman
Subtitle: the New York years : a memoir
By: by Diane di Prima.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Di Prima, Diane -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York; Di Prima, Diane -- Childhood and youth; Di Prima, Diane -- Family; Italian American families -- New York (State) -- New York; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: My life as a woman
Description: ""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.