Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index.
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.
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