Her first book of poetry , This Kind of Bird Flies Backward , was published in 1958 by Hettie and LeRoi Jones ' Totem Press .
Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen .
child 's first book of poetry , This Kind of Bird Flies Backward , was published in 1958 by Hettie and LeRoi Jones ' Totem Press .
Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen .