Contents

• Foreword / Ann Charters
• Visions and Revisions of the Beat Generation / Ronna C. Johnson and 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 How 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