Table of Contents

Foreword / Ann Charters
Acknowledgments and Permissions  
Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation / Ronna C. Johnson / Nancy M. Grace
The Worm Queen Emerges: Helen Adam and the Forgotten Ballad Tradition / Kristin Prevallet
Diane di Prima: ``Nothing Is Lost; It Shines In Our Eyes'' / Anthony Libby
``And Then She Went'': Beat Departures and Feminine Transgressions in Joyce Johnson's Come and Join the Dance / Ronna C. Johnson
What I See in Now I Became Hettie Jones / Barrett Watten
Who Writes? Reading Elise Cowen's Poetry / Tony Trigilio
Snapshots, Sand Paintings, and Celluloid: Formal Considerations in the Life Writing of Women Writers from the Beat Generation / Nancy M. Grace
To Deal with Parts and Particulars: Joanne Kyger's Early Epic Poetics / Linda Russo
Revelations of Companionate Love; or, the Hurts of Women: Janine Pommy Vega's Poems to Fernando / Maria Damon
From Revolution to Creation: Beat Desire and Body Poetics in Anne Waldman's Poetry / Peter Puchek
Many Drummers, a Single Dance? / Tim Hunt
Selected Bibliography     
Works Cited and Consulted      
About the Contributors      
Index

About the Author

Ronna C. Johnson is a lecturer in the departments of English and American Studies at Tufts University.

Nancy M. Grace is an associate professor in the department of English and director of the Program in Writing at The College of Wooster in Ohio. She is the author of The Feminized Male Character in Twentieth-Century Literature.

Reviews

Girls Who Wore Black recovers neglected women writers who deserve more attention for their writing and for their historical role in the mid-century arts scene. This collection of essays reopens and revises the Beat canon, Beat history, and Beat poetics; it is an important contribution to literary criticism and history.
*author of A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles*