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Reviewed on April 1, 2019 | A di Prima Duo
Di Prima (Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years) revisits a period (1954–65) covered in her earlier autobiography. This memoir, however, takes the form of an elegy for her close friend Freddie Herko, a dancer and choreographer, who jumped to his death from the window of a Greenwich Village apartment in October 1964. Di Prima's memories are grouped in chapters devoted to the four seasons, with vivid descriptions of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More