Here are thirty-four revolutionary poems, reflecting the poet's increasingly activist sentiments as she moved from being one of the primary activists in the Beat movement to becoming a participant in the hippie movement in the late sixties. Di Prima continued to publish books of poetry, but she considered herself an anarchist as well as a Buddhist, and she attended many of the protest marches, especially those that opposed the war in Vietnam. She still publishes her poetry and is an instructor at the Naropa Institute outside Boulder, Colorado. Revolutionary Letters is dedicated to Bob Dylan.