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

Authors: Brenda Knight (Editor), Ann Charters (Afterword), Anne Waldman
ISBN-13: 9781573241380, ISBN-10: 1573241385
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Date Published: October 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Brenda Knight

Book Synopsis

With fascinating biographies, over 40 rare photos, and never-before-published writing, Women of the Beat Generation captures the life and work of 40 women who broke with tradition during the uptight 50s.

	Foreword
	Sisters, Saints and Sibyls: Women and the Beat	1
	The Precursors	7
	Helen Adam: Bardic Matriarch	9
	Jane Bowles: A Life at the End of the World	18
	Ilse Klapper	25
	Madeline Gleason: True Born Poet	29
	Josephine Miles: Mentor to a Revolution	39
	The Muses	47
	Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs: Calypso Stranded	49
	Vickie Russell	50
	Helen Hinkle	52
	Carolyn Cassady: Karmic Grace	57
	LuAnne Henderson	60
	Anne Murphy	64
	Edie Parker Kerouac: First Mate	76
	Stella Sampas	78
	Joan Haverty Kerouac: Nobody's Wife	87
	Gabrielle "Memere" Kerouac	88
	Eileen Kaufman: Keeper of the Flame	103
	The Writers	115
	Mary Fabilli: Farmer's Daughter	117
	Diane di Prima: Poet Priestess	123
	Barbara Guest	125
	Elise Cowen: Beat Alice	141
	Joyce Johnson: A True Good Heart	167
	Hettie Jones: Mother Jones	183
	Billie Holiday	186
	Joanne Kyger: Dharma Sister	197
	Denise Levertov: Fortune's Favorite	205
	Joanna McClure: West Coast Villager	214
	Janine Pommy Vega: Lyric Adventurer	223
	Elsie John	225
	Ruth Weiss: The Survivor	241
	Aya Tarlow	244
	Mary Norbert Korte: Redwood Mama Activist	257
	Brenda Frazer: Transformed Genius	269
	Lenore Kandel: Word Alchemist	279
	Anne Waldman: Fast Speaking Woman	287
	Jan Kerouac: The Next Generation	309
	Natalie Jackson	311
	The Artists	319
	Jay DeFeo: The Rose	321
	Joan Brown: Painter and Prodigy	327
	Gui de Angulo	328
	Worthy Beat Women: Recollection	331
	Afterword	335
	Appendix: Lists of Collected Works	343
	Acknowledgments	353
	Permissions Acknowledgments	355
	Index	359