Girls who wore black : women writing the beat generation /
edited by Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2002.
- xvi, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
Foreword / Ann Charters -- Visions and revisions of the beat generation / Ronna C. Johnson and 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 "How 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.
0813530644 0813530652 (pbk.)
2001048399
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism. Beat generation. Women and literature--History--United States--20th century. American literature--History and criticism.--20th century