{"product_id":"women-of-the-beat-generation-the-writers-artists-and-muses-at-the-heart-of-revolution-hardcover-october-1-1996-by-brenda-knight-author","title":"Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of Revolution Hardcover – October 1, 1996 by Brenda Knight (Author)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn anthology of the lives, writings and secrets of the women of the Beat Generation, this book contains biographies poetry and prose by Hettie Jones, Joyce Johnson, Ruth Weiss, Jan Kerouac, and others. It contains commentary by American poet of the year Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEditorial Reviews\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-base\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-row a-expander-container a-expander-extend-container\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmazon.com Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eFemale Beats wrote poetry, took drugs, went on the road, listened to jazz, and lived on the fringe just as the men did, but their accomplishments are not as widely recognized. This volume attempts to correct this oversight by profiling 40 women of the Beat generation and publishing samples of their work. Well-known poets Diane di Prima and Denise Levertov appear in the volume, along with the muses of male writers and other women who never became famous at all. As Brenda Knight notes in her introduction, counterculture women in the 1950s and 1960s faced difficult obstacles: \"To be unmarried, a poet, an artist, to bear biracial children, to go on the road was doubly shocking for a woman, and social condemnation was high.\" The first portion of the anthology is devoted to women who were not Beats but who set the stage for the movement. Josephine Miles wrote poetry and mentored the younger Beat poets at Berkeley, while Madeline Gleason founded the San Francisco Poetry Festival. In the \"Muses\" section are short biographies of wives and girlfriends of famous male writers such as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady. It's widely known that William S. Burroughs shot his wife Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs; this book fills in other details of her wild and short life. Profiles of writers such as Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Janna McClure, and Janine Pommy Vega account for the rest of the anthology. The lives these women led are as interesting as their writing, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen of the Beat Generation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e honors their determination to live outside the mainstream. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e--Jill Marquis\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom Library Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKnight, a scholar of medieval literature and modern poetry, has put together biographical sketches of 36 women?designated as precursors, muses, writers, or artists?who participated in the Beat movement of the 1950s and early 1960s. There are selections from their literary works (some previously unpublished), cameo insets about other women Beats, and many wonderful photographs. Diane di Prima's \"Rant\" is here (\"history is a living weapon in yr hand\/\u0026amp; you have imagined it\") and Anne Waldman's \"Fast Speaking Woman,\" as well as excerpts from the memoirs of Carolyn Cassady, Edie Parker Kerouac, Janine Pommy Vega, Brenda Frazier, Leo Skir, and less-famous others. Identification and celebration are the intent of the work, and the editor's comments contain little analysis. Thus, unsettling incidents, such as William Borroughs's killing his wife in a close-range, William Tell situation, are recounted but not examined, and much of the information seems undigested. Still, there is no other comparable collection. Though imperfect, this work is an important purchase for academic and public libraries.?Carolynne Myall, Eastern Washington Univ. Libs.\u003cbr\u003eCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andromeda Mixed Media ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47628575867101,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0706\/2500\/1693\/files\/beat.jpg?v=1773775861","url":"https:\/\/andromedamixedmedia.com\/products\/women-of-the-beat-generation-the-writers-artists-and-muses-at-the-heart-of-revolution-hardcover-october-1-1996-by-brenda-knight-author","provider":"Andromeda Mixed Media ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}