This Kind of Bird Flies Backward

New York: Totem Press, 1958. First edition. Side-stapled softcover, 43pp., 4.5 x 7 inches. 

Very Good. Mild toning due to age with slight inch long tear to verso, as in photos. Darker discoloration on rear cover while inner pages are very clean.

A scarce copy of Diane di Prima's first book of poetry. Including illustrations by Fred Herko, with a succinct introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti ("I don't know her, never saw her, never heard her.") Adjacent to the Beat poets but in a realm of her own, di Prima's poetry fuses the political with the spiritual and stream of conscious writing style that alternates with a serious investigation of form.