Never-before-published memoir written during di Prima’s residence in early 60s New York City. An illuminating snapshot of a young, female, bohemian artist in Greenwich Village. di Prima was a gifted writer deeply entrenched in the Beat-era scene. City Lights will simultaneously publish a new expanded edition of di Prima’s influential book of poetry, Revolutionary Letters. Both Spring and Summer Annals and Revolutionary Letters will be published on the one-year anniversary of di Prima’s passing, October 2021. Spring and Summer Annals details di Prima’s relationships with several well-known artists in New York including the dancer Freddie Herko, who performed in Andy Warhol’s early films and was part of The Factory. Herko and di Prima were cultural pre-cursors to literary and artistic couples like Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, setting the stage for their creative kin. The book also details di Prima’s relationship with the revolutionary poet LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka). Spring and Summer offers a fascinating look into the legendary writer’s process, which endures as a point of interest to readers and aspiring authors. Spring and Summer is a prequel of sorts to Revolutionary Letters, detailing di Prima’s life choices, which she then wrote about in her classic revolutionary handbook. There is a huge interest in the cultural life of Lower Manhattan during this time period, especially through the eyes of the women who lived it. Examples include: the popularity of Patti’s Smith’s Just Kids; Ninth Street Women: Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art; and the Netflix series Pretend It’s a City with Fran Lebowitz. Differs from Memoirs of a Beatnik as this book is based on di Prima’s real lived experiences, while that title had many notable embellishments to help its marketability.