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Title: How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones ISBN: 0-8021-3496-3 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I love Hettie!
Comment: I had the honor of taking both a poetry and personal essay class taught by Hettie Jones, and all I have to say, is she is just about the coolest lady I know, and since I met her before reading this memoir, it was absolutely amazing to think of all she has been through, she is wonderful and this book reflects just that.
Rating: 5
Summary: couldn't put it down
Comment: Great books - stayed up until 3 am to finish. paid the price this morning but it was worth it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Poignant, but ultimately mundane
Comment: Hettie Jones' work is an important contribution to the Beat era. The Beats were avant-garde in many ways, but they remained entrenched in sexism. Sexual liberation is here frought with masculine privilege, as is drug-taking and the creation of art--men get to create, while the mothers cook, clean, and change diapers.
However, I found the book a bit dull and unreflective. Jones seems not to have been very excited by the Beat scene or the people whom she knew. Nor does she emote a real feminist consciousness. Instead, she seems to sense that something was wrong, and hope that things will change.
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Title: Recollections of My Life As a Woman: The New York Years by Diane Di Prima ISBN: 0140231587 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Memoirs of a Beatnik by Diane Di Prima, Diana Di Prima ISBN: 0140235396 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming-Of-Age in the Beat Orbit of Jack Kerouac by Joyce Johnson, Ann Douglas ISBN: 0140283579 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution by Brenda Knight, Anne Waldman, Ann Charters ISBN: 1573241385 Publisher: Conari Pr Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Different Beat: Writings by Women of the Beat Generation (High Risk Bks)) by Richard Peabody, Joyce Johnson, Carolyn Cassady ISBN: 1852424311 Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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