Recollections of My Life as a Woman (Viking cloth $29.95), di Prima's 34th book in the last 40 or so years, is her first work to appear under the imprint of a corporate publishing house. But probably she'll survive her current skirmish with fame better than her Beat brothers, if only because she has never needed big-time literary attention. "I feel like a prisoner of Allen Ginsberg," he once complained.ĭiane di Prima-probably the best-known woman writer of the Beat Generation-has always been wary of publishing with the Devil. Jack Kerouac found that out, and he came to hate the fame that accompanied his career as a bestselling author. THE DEVIL always gets his due in America, especially in big-time publishing. Poet Diane di Prima tells what it was like to be a Beat-and a woman Beat the Devil: Poet Diane di Prima published her life story at a corporate press-but she did it her way.
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