SEVEN LOVE POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE LATIN, translated by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / this chapbook from another time / In friendship and love / Diane di Prima".

Chapbook, paper wrappers, side stapled, 6x9 inches, 32 unnumbered pages. Text in Latin and English, on facing pages.

NEW YORK: The Poets Press, second printing, 1967.

GOOD condition: A paperclip imprint is on the front cover and the first leaf, the paperclip has also left its yellow ghost image on the first leaf; otherwise the chapbook is bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Unique with the loving inscription to a close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******