Waldman THE Beat Book

Knight , Brenda ed. / Anne Waldman / Ann Charters / Carolyn Cassady / Jan Kerouac / et al: Beat Generation , Women of the ... The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution, MJF Pub. New York 2000
Hardcover in DJ ... BRAND NEW from publisher ... Never opened, Never owned, Never marked, Jacket protected in New, clear mylar sleeve ... Excellent Gift Giving quality ... 366 pages ... illustrated with B&W photographs ... Foreword by Anne Waldman, Afterword by Ann Charters ... American Book Awrd Winner 1997 ... The Beat Generation created an American revoultion in literature and culture that transformed the mid-twentieth century ... The Beats helped make literature a democracy ... All one needed, they believed, was passion and a love of the written word ... The names of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William Burroughs and their friends are well known to the reading public at large, and on its face the beat movement appears to have been an exclusively male phenomenon ... But the Beat Movement's publicity did not neccessarily reflect the reality of its literature and spirit ... This singular book is devoted to contributions of women to the body and spirit of the Beat revolution ... The women included in this anthology run the gamut from the famous - Carolyn Cassady and Jan Kerouac - to the relatively undiscovered - Mary Fabilli and Helen Adam ... The art, prose, and poetry selected represent the full range and development of their work ... The women whose work is featured in this anthology were talented rebels with enough courage and creative spirit to turn their backs on "the good life" that the fifties promised, journey to San Francisco and Greenwich Village, and dare to create lives of their own ... Today an unprecedented amount of brilliant, imaginative and highly experimental writing by women is being recognized and applauded ... This anthology looks back to the antecedents for this greater liberty of expression ... It is a testament to the lives of the women who helped shape the Beat era ... Together, their voices form an energetic force field of consciousness that manifested at a rich and difficult time in cultural history ... 'Women of the Beat Generation' profiles 40 women - Precursors, Muses, Writers, and Artists - including Elise Cowen, Diane di Prima, Hettie Jones, Joan Vollmer Burroughs, Jan Kerouac, Carolyn Cassady, Edie Parker Kerouac, Eileen Kaufman, Joyce Johnson, Denise Levertov, Brenda Frazer, Anne Waldman, Jay DeFeo, Joan Brown, and many others ... 'Women of the Beat Generation' highlights the lives and work of these female iconoclasts, and ensures the world will not forget their contribution to its transformation ... ' 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 ' ... " Women of the Beat Generation : ... The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution " ... by Brenda Knight .... published by MJF Publishing, New York, 2000 ... Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality

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Knight, Brenda , editor. (Anne Waldman, Ann Charters, Eileen Kaufman, Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanna Kyger, Joanne McClure, Janine Poma Vega and others, contributors.): WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996. ISBN: 1-573240613
HC 1st ed -

First printing. A wonderful anthology - the first to combine in one volume contributions from such a significant number of the women writers of the Beat movement - starting with the 'precursors' like Helen Adams, Madeleine Gleason and Jane Bowles. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes biographical information and writings by Carolyn Cassady, Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs, Lenore Kandel, Denise Levertov, Elise Cowen and many others. When this book was first issued, two panels at the San Francisco Book Festival in November were designed around it: one focused on the biographies and lives of these women, the other on their poetry. Among the writers who participated in these panels were Lenore Kandel, who came out of many years of seclusion to talk about her life and read her poems, Cassady, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones and more. It was a memorable event - The book includes many photographs, sidebars, contributions (some brief) by writers like Ted Joans (who wrote a recollection called 'Worthy Beat Women') and Herbert Hunke, Ted Morgan, etc. and individual bibliographies of each woman. Foreword by Anne Waldman, Afterword by Ann Charters. Index. Slightly oversized format. 366 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

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Knight, Brenda , editor. (Anne Waldman, Ann Charters, Eileen Kaufman, Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanna Kyger, Joanne McClure, Janine Poma Vega and others, contributors.): WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996. ISBN: 1-573240613
HC 1st ed -

First printing. A wonderful anthology - the first to combine in one volume contributions from such a significant number of the women writers of the Beat movement - starting with the 'precursors' like Helen Adams, Madeleine Gleason and Jane Bowles. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes biographical information and writings by Carolyn Cassady, Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs, Lenore Kandel, Denise Levertov, Elise Cowen and many others. When this book was first issued, two panels at the San Francisco Book Festival in November were designed around it: one focused on the biographies and lives of these women, the other on their poetry. Among the writers who participated in these panels were Lenore Kandel, who came out of many years of seclusion to talk about her life and read her poems, Cassady, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones and more. It was a memorable event - The book includes many photographs, sidebars, contributions (some brief) by writers like Ted Joans (who wrote a recollection called 'Worthy Beat Women') and Herbert Hunke, Ted Morgan, etc. and individual bibliographies of each woman. Foreword by Anne Waldman, Afterword by Ann Charters. Index. Slightly oversized format. 366 pp. Very good in near fine dust jacket (small stain on upper edge of textblock).

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Knight, Brenda , editor. (Anne Waldman, Ann Charters, Eileen Kaufman, Diane di Prima, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Joanna Kyger, Joanne McClure, Janine Poma Vega and others, contributors.): WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1996. ISBN: 1-573240613
HC 1st ed -

First printing. A wonderful anthology - the first to combine in one volume contributions from such a significant number of the women writers of the Beat movement - starting with the 'precursors' like Helen Adams, Madeleine Gleason and Jane Bowles. In addition to the contributors shown above, this includes biographical information and writings by Carolyn Cassady, Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs, Lenore Kandel, Denise Levertov, Elise Cowen and many others. When this book was first issued, two panels at the San Francisco Book Festival in November were designed around it: one focused on the biographies and lives of these women, the other on their poetry. Among the writers who participated in these panels were Lenore Kandel, who came out of many years of seclusion to talk about her life and read her poems, Cassady, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones and more. It was a memorable event - The book includes many photographs, sidebars, contributions (some brief) by writers like Ted Joans (who wrote a recollection called 'Worthy Beat Women') and Herbert Hunke, Ted Morgan, etc. and individual bibliographies of each woman. Foreword by Anne Waldman, Afterword by Ann Charters. Index. Slightly oversized format. 366 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. (prev owner's names, underlining on a few lines on pg 17.)

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