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

In de gedichten van Dorien de Wit is sprake van veel zoeken

Etel Adnan

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

politics and gender

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.