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    Girls Who Wore Black
    Women Writing the Beat Generation

    Ronna C Johnson (Edited by), Nancy M Grace (Edited by)

    9780813530659

    Paperback / softback, published 11 June 2002

    318 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg

    Girls 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)

    What do we know about the women who played an important role in creating the literature of the Beat Generation? Until recently, very little. Studies of the movement have effaced or excluded women writers, such as Elise Cowen, Joyce Johnson, Joanne Kyger, Hettie Jones, and Diane Di Prima, each one a significant figure of the postwar Beat communities. Equally free-thinking and innovative as the founding generation of men, women writers, fluent in Beat, hippie, and women's movement idioms, partook of and bridged two important countercultures of the American mid-century. Persistently foregrounding female experiences in the cold war 1950s and in the counterculture 1960s and in every decade up to the millennium, women writing Beat have brought nonconformity, skepticism, and gender dissent to postmodern culture and literary production in the United States and beyond.

    Foreword / Ann Charters
    Acknowledgments and Permissions  
    Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation / Ronna C. Johnson / 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 Now 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
    Selected Bibliography     
    Works Cited and Consulted      
    About the Contributors      
    Index
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