Recollections of my life as a woman

By Diane di Prima

Subjects: Homes and haunts, Biography, Women, American Women poets, Intellectual life, Authors, american, Women, biography, Italian American families, Family, Childhood and youth, American Poets, Family relationships

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.