{"product_id":"girls-who-wore-black-women-writing-the-beat-generation-9780813530659","title":"Girls Who Wore Black  Women Writing the Beat","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGirls Who Wore Black recovers neglected women writers who deserve more attention for their writing and for their historical role in the mid-century arts scene. This collection of essays reopens and revises the Beat canon, Beat history, and Beat poetics; it is an important contribution to literary criticism and history. -- Jennie Skerl * author of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword \/ Ann Charters\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments and Permissions  \u003cbr\u003e Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation \/ Ronna C. Johnson \/ Nancy M. Grace\u003cbr\u003e The Worm Queen Emerges: Helen Adam and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition \/ Kristin Prevallet\u003cbr\u003e Diane di Prima: ``Nothing Is Lost; It Shines In Our Eyes'' \/ Anthony Libby\u003cbr\u003e ``And Then She Went'': Beat Departures and Feminine Transgressions in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance \/ Ronna C. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e What I See in Now I Became Hettie Jones \/ Barrett Watten\u003cbr\u003e Who Writes? Reading Elise Cowen's Poetry \/ Tony Trigilio\u003cbr\u003e Snapshots, Sand Paintings, and Celluloid: Formal Considerations in the Life Writing of Women Writers from the Beat Generation \/ Nancy M. Grace\u003cbr\u003e To Deal with Parts and Particulars: Joanne Kyger's Early Epic Poetics \/ Linda Russo\u003cbr\u003e Revelations of Companionate Love; or, the Hurts of Women: Janine Pommy Vega's Poems to Fernando \/ Maria Damon\u003cbr\u003e From Revolution to Creation: Beat Desire and Body Poetics in Anne Waldman's Poetry \/ Peter Puchek\u003cbr\u003e Many Drummers, a Single Dance? \/ Tim Hunt\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography     \u003cbr\u003e Works Cited and Consulted      \u003cbr\u003e About the Contributors      \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359204278615,"sku":"9780813530659","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813530659.jpg?v=1754123973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/girls-who-wore-black-women-writing-the-beat-generation-9780813530659","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}