Girls Who Wore Black

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