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Format: 377 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780822361466 , 9780822361657

Uniform Title: Correspondence Selections

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780822374152

Language: English

Keywords: Jones, Hettie 1934- ; Dorn, Helene 1927-2004 ; Briefsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (480 p.) : , 21 illustrations, incl. 10 in color

ISBN: 9780822374152

Content: "It works, we're in business, yeah Babe!" So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own. From their first meeting in 1960, writer Hettie Jones—then married to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)—and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn (1927–2004), wife of poet Ed Dorn, found in each other more than friendship. They were each other's confidant, emotional support, and unflagging partner through difficulties, defeats, and victories, from surviving divorce and struggling as single mothers, to finding artistic success in their own right. Revealing the intimacy of lifelong friends, these letters tell two stories from the shared point of view of women who refused to go along with society’s expectations. Jones frames her and Helene's story, adding details and explanations while filling in gaps in the narrative. As she writes, "we'd fled the norm for women then, because to live it would have been a kind of death." Apart from these two personal stories, there are, as well, reports from the battlegrounds of women's rights and tenant's rights, reflections on marriage and motherhood, and contemplation of the past to which these two had remained irrevocably connected. Prominent figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary appear as well, making Love, H an important addition to literature on the Beats. Above all, this book is a record of the changing lives of women artists as the twentieth century became the twenty-first, and what it has meant for women considering such a life today. It's worth a try, Jones and Dorn show us, offering their lives as proof that it can be done.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , Chapter 1 -- , Chapter 2 -- , Chapter 3 -- , Chapter 4 -- , Chapter 5 -- , Chapter 6 -- , Chapter 7 -- , Chapter 8 -- , Chapter 9 -- , Chapter 10 -- , Chapter 11 -- , Chapter 12 -- , Chapter 13 -- , Chapter 14 -- , Chapter 15 -- , Chapter 16 -- , Chapter 17 -- , Doing 70 -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , Credits -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822374152

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822374152

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822374152

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (377 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln) : , Illustrationen, Portraits.

ISBN: 978-0-8223-7415-2

Note: Bevorzugte Informationsquelle Landingpage (Duke University Press), da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8223-6146-6

Language: English

Keywords: 1934-2024 Jones, Hettie ; 1927-2004 Dorn, Helene ; Briefsammlung ; Briefsammlung

DOI: 10.1215/9780822374152

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Format: 1 online resource (392 pages)

ISBN: 0-8223-7415-3

Uniform Title: Correspondence. Selections

Content: "It works, we're in business, yeah Babe!" So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own. From their first meeting in 1960, writer Hettie Jones—then married to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)—and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn (1927–2004), wife of poet Ed Dorn, found in each other more than friendship. They were each other's confidant, emotional support, and unflagging partner through difficulties, defeats, and victories, from surviving divorce and struggling as single mothers, to finding artistic success in their own right. Revealing the intimacy of lifelong friends, these letters tell two stories from the shared point of view of women who refused to go along with society’s expectations. Jones frames her and Helene's story, adding details and explanations while filling in gaps in the narrative. As she writes, "we'd fled the norm for women then, because to live it would have been a kind of death." Apart from these two personal stories, there are, as well, reports from the battlegrounds of women's rights and tenant's rights, reflections on marriage and motherhood, and contemplation of the past to which these two had remained irrevocably connected. Prominent figures such as Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary appear as well, making Love, H an important addition to literature on the Beats. Above all, this book is a record of the changing lives of women artists as the twentieth century became the twenty-first, and what it has meant for women considering such a life today. It's worth a try, Jones and Dorn show us, offering their lives as proof that it can be done.

Note: Includes index. , Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , INTRODUCTION -- , Chapter 1 -- , Chapter 2 -- , Chapter 3 -- , Chapter 4 -- , Chapter 5 -- , Chapter 6 -- , Chapter 7 -- , Chapter 8 -- , Chapter 9 -- , Chapter 10 -- , Chapter 11 -- , Chapter 12 -- , Chapter 13 -- , Chapter 14 -- , Chapter 15 -- , Chapter 16 -- , Chapter 17 -- , Doing 70 -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , Credits -- , Index , Issued also in print.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-6165-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-6146-9

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822374152