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

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


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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution Brenda Knight
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Amazon.com Review

Female 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 Women of the Beat Generation honors their determination to live outside the mainstream. --Jill Marquis
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From Publishers Weekly

It is not uncommon for major cultural or artistic revolutions to be reduced to their most obvious symbols when their history is popularized. Names like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, for example, have become synonymous with the term Beat Generation. Knight's thorough and well-researched book attempts to rectify the notion of the Beat Generation as singularly male. By bringing to light a wide array of writers via biographies and fiction, poetry and other texts (many previously unpublished), Knight firmly establishes both well-known and lesser-known women such as Jane Bowles, Josephine Miles, Eileen Kaufman, Hettie Jones, ruth weiss, and Denise Levertov as having been either essential precursors to or equal participants in this 1950s' revolution that brought poetry to the streets. While several of the Beat women became successful writers?Levertov, Mary Korte and Joanna McClure are still writing today?this book also chronicles the sad lives of the women who married Beat poets and lost themselves in the process. Knight's study, however, is not a critical one, and the overall nostalgic tone of the book leaves no one, collectively or individually, accountable for the fact that most of these writers did not reach their prime. There are entertaining sidebar anecdotes sprinkled throughout but expanded critical and biographical materials would have greatly strengthened the book. Nevertheless, this is an unprecedented look at a group of women whose works were largely ignored until now, and it is a useful addition to any study of the Beat Generation. Illustrations.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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