Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573241385 ISBN 13: 9781573241380

Publisher: Conari Press, 1998

Synopsis

Winner of an American Book Award, this collection is an unprecedented exploration of the lives, writings, and astonishing stories of the longoverlooked women of the Beat Generation from the famous Carolyn Cassady & Jan Kerouac to the relatively undiscovered Mary Fabilli & Helen Adam. The art, prose, & poetry selected represent the full range & development of the work of 40 women, highlighting the lives & work of these famed iconoclasts.

About this title

About the Author:

Brenda Knight is the author of Women Who Love Books Too Much and Women of the Beat Generation, winner of an American Book Award. A scholar of medieval literature and modern poetry, she lives in San Francisco, California.

Review:

Apartment On Twin Peaks by Helen Douglas Adam
The Last Secret by Helen Douglas Adam
Last Words Of Her Lover by Helen Douglas Adam
Margaretta's Rime by Helen Douglas Adam
Death by Elise Cowen
Did I Go Mad by Elise Cowen
Emily by Elise Cowen
The Lady by Elise Cowen
Sitting by Elise Cowen
A Skin by Elise Cowen
Teacher-your Body My Kabbalah by Elise Cowen
Who Will Slap by Elise Cowen
The Doctrine Of Signatures by Diane Di Prima
For Pigpen by Diane Di Prima
The Loba Addresses The Goddess/ Or The Poet As Priestess Addresses... by Diane Di Prima
My Lover's Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun by Diane Di Prima
No Problem Party Poem by Diane Di Prima
Rant by Diane Di Prima
Advent by Mary Fabilli
December Evening by Mary Fabilli
Letter To Robert by Mary Fabilli
The Rollicking Roses by Mary Fabilli
I Forgot Your Name by Madeline Gleason
The Interior Castle by Madeline Gleason
Lyrics by Madeline Gleason
The Poet In The Wood by Madeline Gleason
Rebirth by Madeline Gleason
Soulglass by Madeline Gleason
Rabbits Rabbits Rabbits 2/1/80 by Hettie Jones
Sonnet by Hettie Jones
Untitled (teddy Bears On The Highway) by Hettie Jones
Welcome To Our Crowd by Hettie Jones
Words by Hettie Jones
Enlightenment Poem by Lenore Kandel
God/love Poem by Lenore Kandel
Small Prayer For Falling Angels by Lenore Kandel
Eddie Mae The Cook Dreamed Sister Mary Ran Off With Allen Ginsberg by Mary Norbert Korte
Remembering Bill Everson, Poet by Mary Norbert Korte
The Room Within by Mary Norbert Korte
There's No Such Thing As An Ex-catholic by Mary Norbert Korte
This Year Will Be The Winter Spring The Summer by Mary Norbert Korte
Throwing Firecrackers Out The Window While The Ex-husband Drives By.. by Mary Norbert Korte
Turning 40 In Willits by Mary Norbert Korte
Breakfast. He Assured Me by Joanne Kyger
He Makes Love To Her by Joanne Kyger
I Want A Smaller Thing In Mind by Joanne Kyger
It Is True, There Is Power Within Us. But I Am So by Joanne Kyger
It's A Great Day. Last Night I Visited My Old by Joanne Kyger
My Vision Is A Large Golden Room by Joanne Kyger
What I Wanted To Say by Joanne Kyger
Another Journey by Denise Levertov
The Dead by Denise Levertov
The Gypsy's Window by Denise Levertov
Collage by Joanna Mcclure
Hard Edge by Joanna Mcclure
June 18, 1984 by Joanna Mcclure
Night by Joanna Mcclure
Pearls For Kathie by Joanna Mcclure
Sappho by Joanna Mcclure
Wolf Eyes, Sels by Joanna Mcclure
At The Counter by Josephine Miles
Bureau by Josephine Miles
Curtain by Josephine Miles
Travellers by Josephine Miles
Ah Certainty Of Love In The Hand by Janine Pommy Vega
The Drum Song by Janine Pommy Vega
February Thaw by Janine Pommy Vega
Greeting The Year 2000, With Respect by Janine Pommy Vega
Here Before The Sunrise Blue & In This Solitude by Janine Pommy Vega
M42 by Janine Pommy Vega
Fast Speaking Woman, Sels by Anne Waldman
I Am The Guard! by Anne Waldman
A Phonecall From Frank O'hara by Anne Waldman
Two Hearts by Anne Waldman
For Bobby Kaufman by Ruth Weiss
For Madeline Gleason by Ruth Weiss
I Always Thought You Black, Sels by Ruth Weiss
My Name Is Woman, Sels: Anna Marie by Ruth Weiss
Post-card 1995 by Ruth Weiss
Single Out: 2. Incident, Sels by Ruth Weiss
Single Out: 4. Dance, Sels by Ruth Weiss
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Conari Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1573241385
• ISBN 13: 9781573241380
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: Knight Brenda