A report on Beat Generation and Amiri Baraka
While he was stationed in Puerto Rico, he worked at the base library, which allowed him ample reading time, and it was here that, inspired by Beat poets back in America, he began to write poetry.
- Amiri BarakaLeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) married Beat writer, Hettie Cohen, who became Hettie Jones, in 1958.
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Diane di Prima
2 linksDiane di Prima (August 6, 1934October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement.
Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward, was published in 1958 by Hettie Jones and LeRoi Jones' Totem Press.
Allen Ginsberg
1 linksAmerican poet and writer.
American poet and writer.
As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation.
LeRoi Jones before he became Amiri Baraka, who, after reading "Howl", wrote a letter to Ginsberg on a sheet of toilet paper.
Hettie Jones
1 linksAmerican poet.
American poet.
She has written twenty-three books that include a memoir of the Beat Generation, three volumes of poetry, and publications for children and young adults, including The Trees Stand Shining and Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music.
After graduating from college and returning to New York, Jones married LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), an African-American writer.