Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones (of his true name Hettie Cohen) is an American auteure born in New York in 1934. It is associated with the Beat generation.

She studies Arts at the university of Virginia then of Columbia. Of return to New York, it settles in Greenwich Village and attends the writers of Happy the generation, like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O' Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, and Charles Olson. It meets Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) with the favor of his work for the review The Record To change, which it marries in a Buddhist temple in 1958. It takes part in the drafting of several literary reviews, whose Yugen, founded with her husband and who makes it possible young authors to publish their work.

Its first collection of poetry received Normalized it Farber First Book Award.

Publications

The Trees Stand Shining, Poetry off the North American Indians, 1971.
Coyote Bruise, 1972.
Longhouse Winter, 1972.
Big Star Fallin' Mama, Five Women in Black Music, 1974.
Living With Wolves, 1975.
Forever Young, Forever Free, 1976.
How to Eat your ABCs: In Book Vitamins Butt, 1976.
Mustang Country, 1976.
You Light Up My Life, 1976.
I Hastens to Talk About Your Mother, 1979.
In Search off the Castaways, 1979.
Promises in the Dark, 1979.
Having Been Her, 1981.
Missing Sweet Pink, 1984.
How I Became Hettie Jones, has Memoir, 1990.
Drive: Poems, 1998.
All Told, 2003.

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