Hettie Jones

Nu är den äntligen här, 766 sidor och 9 poeter stor - 50 år efter Kerouac och 43 år efter Allen Ginsberg på svenska, presenteras nu världens omfångsrikaste antologi med kvinnliga beatpoeter! Carol Bergé, Elise Cowen, Diane di Prima, Hettie Jones, Lenore Kandel, Joanne Kyger, Joanna McClure, Janine Pommy Vega, Anne Waldman. Antologin bjuder på stora dikturval av dessa poeter från USA och följer deras författarskap över de senaste 50 åren. De flesta introduceras för första gången på svenska och en del dikter publiceras för första gången överhuvudtaget. Boken innehåller också författarpresentationer, fördjupande efterord och ett stort antal noter till dikterna. Urval och översättning av Kristian Carlsson.

Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown when he was 19 and she was 18, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers. She shared the hard times and the dangers - when Bob was wounded in a gunfight before the Peace Concert, Rita was shot in the head and left for dead. Their marriage was not always easy, but Rita was the woman Bob returned to no matter where music and other women might take him, the woman who held him when he died at the age of 35. Today she sees herself as the guardian of his legacy. Full of new insights, No Woman No Cry is a unique biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both poverty and then the strains of global celebrity. 'It will surely become the definitive biographical account of the reggae guitarist-singer-songwriter who changed pop music and in the process became a leader to millions' The Times 'Rita Marley is reggae royalty . . . In her own words, this is a revealing insight into Marley's life and legacy' Daily Mirror

"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.

Poetry. While Hettie Jones' past collections of poetry combined prosaic diction with a knowing, urban wit . This new collection of several dozen short, unsentimental works primarily located in New York City, Jones's longtime home, extend her territory--Publishers Weekly. Readers who have appreciated Hettie Jones's previous literary works.will be intrigued and exhilarated by her recent book..an engaging meditation from the personal to the collective that.touches upon a variety of themes--Rochelle Owens. Hettie Jones is the prize-winning author of two previous collections of poetry All Told and Drive and a memoir How I Became Hettie Jones as well as many other books for children and adults.

The story of Rita Marley's life as the girlfriend, wife, and eventual widow of Bob Marley, the legend of reggae music, whose distinctive sound has been part of the world's popular culture for more than three decades.

The wife of Bob Marley describes her life with the legendary reggae singer, from their first meeting, courtship, and marriage; through their tumultuous relationship as she dealt with his musical success, adultery, and illegitimate children; to his 1981 death from cancer and her own life as a musician and businesswoman.

Poetry. African American Studies. How lucky I am to have my good humor Without it I might / have been blue instead of delighted enough with my life/ and the two baby house plants I've just brought home / to share with me their destiny, or maybe to combine us/ in that one big destiny-(All Told). ALL TOLD adds to the achievement of DRIVE, Hettie Jones's prize-winning first collection. Her gift is to paint with vivid words and to cloak her wit with images in such a way that they liner in the mind long after the reading--Midwest Book Review.

Greenwich Village in the 1950s was a haven to which young poets, painters, and jazz musicians flocked. Among them was Hettie Cohen, who'd been born in a Jewish middle-class family in Queens and who'd chosen to cross racial barriers to marry the controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Theirs was a bohemian life in the awakening East Village of underground publishing and jazz lofts, through which drifted such icons of the generation as Allen Ginsberg, Thelonious Monk, Jack Kerouac, Frank O'Hara, Billie Holiday, James Baldwin, and Franz Kline.