Girls who wore black : women writing the beat generation

Girls who wore black : women writing the beat generation / edited by Ronna C. Johnson and Nancy M. Grace.

Other author/creator	Johnson, Ronna.
Other author/creator	Grace, Nancy McCampbell.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2002.
Description	xvi, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--Women authors --History and criticism. Beats (Persons) Women and literature--United States --History --20th century. American literature--20th century --History and criticism.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
LCCN	2001048399
ISBN	0813530644 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0813530652 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS228.B6 W66 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold