Richard Peabody lives in Washington DC,. He is the editor of Mondo Barbie, Mondo Elvis, Mondo Marilyn and most recently Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion. He teaches at Georgetown University. A Different Beat grew out of a course he gives there on the Beat Movement.
?The timing is perfect. Women seemed missing from official
collections of Beat writing. The women I heard in Greenwich Village
seemed rebels - daring, mysterious, strong, able with magical
images to say what I hadn
t heard women say... Present Tense writing by young women writing
passionately from within, who insist women 'trust yourself
*conscious and engaged? Lyn Lifshin ?A Different Beat celebrates
the voices of the women who participated in this important literary
movement. Their work is essential in helping us understand the
social and cultural context of their times? Ann Charters*
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