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

Name: Women of the Beat Generation The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution
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ISBN: 9781573241380

ISBN-10: 1573241385

ISBN-13: 9781573241380

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Brenda Knight

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Women of the Beat Generation celebrates 40 women writers, artists and muses from an era of American literary history.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date: 10/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword



Sisters, Saints and Sibyls: Women and the Beat


The Precursors


Helen Adam: Bardic Matriarch


Jane Bowles: A Life at the End of the World


Ilse Klapper


Madeline Gleason: True Born Poet


Josephine Miles: Mentor to a Revolution


The Muses


Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs: Calypso Stranded


Vickie Russell


Helen Hinkle


Carolyn Cassady: Karmic Grace


LuAnne Henderson


Anne Murphy


Edie Parker Kerouac: First Mate


Stella Sampas


Joan Haverty Kerouac: Nobody's Wife


Gabrielle "Memere" Kerouac


Eileen Kaufman: Keeper of the Flame


The Writers


Mary Fabilli: Farmer's Daughter


Diane di Prima: Poet Priestess


Barbara Guest


Elise Cowen: Beat Alice


Joyce Johnson: A True Good Heart


Hettie Jones: Mother Jones


Billie Holiday


Joanne Kyger: Dharma Sister


Denise Levertov: Fortune's Favorite


Joanna McClure: West Coast Villager


Janine Pommy Vega: Lyric Adventurer


Elsie John


Ruth Weiss: The Survivor


Aya Tarlow


Mary Norbert Korte: Redwood Mama Activist


Brenda Frazer: Transformed Genius


Lenore Kandel: Word Alchemist


Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking Woman


Jan Kerouac: The Next Generation


Natalie Jackson


The Artists


Jay DeFeo: The Rose


Joan Brown: Painter and Prodigy


Gui de Angulo


Worthy Beat Women: Recollection



Afterword



Appendix: Lists of Collected Works


Acknowledgments


Permissions Acknowledgments


Index