Girls who wore black : women writing the beat generation
The contributors to this volume attempt to fill the gap in critical consideration of women writers of the Beat Generation and evaluate their lives and literary output, helping the reader appreciate their unique, diverse voices during a dynamic moment of profound cultural change.
Print Book, English, 2002
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (N.J.) [etc.], 2002
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XVI, 295 p., [8] t. ill. 23 cm
9780813530659, 0813530652
1014894076
Foreword / Ann Charters Acknowledgments and Permissions Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation / Ronna C. Johnson / Nancy M. Grace The Worm Queen Emerges: Helen Adam and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition / Kristin Prevallet Diane di Prima: ``Nothing Is Lost; It Shines In Our Eyes'' / Anthony Libby ``And Then She Went'': Beat Departures and Feminine Transgressions in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance / Ronna C. Johnson What I See in Now I Became Hettie Jones / Barrett Watten Who Writes? Reading Elise Cowen's Poetry / Tony Trigilio Snapshots, Sand Paintings, and Celluloid: Formal Considerations in the Life Writing of Women Writers from the Beat Generation / Nancy M. Grace To Deal with Parts and Particulars: Joanne Kyger's Early Epic Poetics / Linda Russo Revelations of Companionate Love; or, the Hurts of Women: Janine Pommy Vega's Poems to Fernando / Maria Damon From Revolution to Creation: Beat Desire and Body Poetics in Anne Waldman's Poetry / Peter Puchek Many Drummers, a Single Dance? / Tim Hunt Selected Bibliography Works Cited and Consulted About the Contributors Index