Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems altijd vrij from the terraces and precincts

from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs

Here the exilic idea of a return to a home is expressed in the daily return to the blank page in search of a poem

Dus bijvoorbeeld ook voor als je op maandag al toe bent aan weekend

after his homosexuality led the Italian Communist Party to expel him on charges of "moral and political unworthiness

Life in Space is Rymbu’s first full-length collection in English translation and includes poems selected from her three books as well as more recent work

Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems altijd vrij from the terraces and precinctsDiane di Prima Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank OHara and Audre Lorde. After joining Timothy Learys intentional community in upstate New York, she moved to San Francisco in 1968.