The Protests of Ginsberg and Di Prima as Marginalized Minorities
There is nothing more American than a protest, than questioning authority and rebelling in the...
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A Lady’s Choice: A reflection on Diane di Prima’s “Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, after an Abortion”
Diane di Prima is a woman’s poet to the very core of her diction. She is not a woman’s poet simply...
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Little Women
I was only twenty in the fall of 1955 when I sat down to start my first novel. Come and Join the...
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Women Writers of the Beat Era: A Review
In Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality, Mary Paniccia Carden argues...
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‘The Personal is Political’[1]
The moves of Beat women to reclaim bodily freedom and space through performative poetry ‘The...
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“A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes
“The whole Beat scene had very little to do with the participation of women as artists themselves....
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The Beat Generation and Mental Hospitals
The 1940s and 50s were difficult years to be non-conformist, and that was doubly true if you were...
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Echoes of the Revolution: Diane di Prima and the Beat Generation
This essay originally appeared in Beatdom #17: “We are in the middle of a...
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Defining Beat: Era, Location, and the Importance of Considering Women
The Beat Generation, though small in numbers, had a profound effect on the American...
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Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones chronicles a forty year friendship through...
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A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray
Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on...
Read MoreJoyce Johnson’s Novels Available From Open Road Media
Joyce Johnson is best-known for her 1983 memoir, Minor Characters, which focuses on the years...
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