Title: Recollections of 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.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Childhood and youth, Family, Family relationships, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Italian American families, Women, American Women poets, Women, biography, Authors, american
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
People: Diane Di Prima
Time periods: 20th century