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Joanne Kyger’s Desecheo Notebook and the Beat Veneration
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Amy Friedman’s essay introduces an important aspect of Kyger’s writing practice, journal as genre, in a close reading of Desecheo Notebook, a chapbook published in 1971 that describes her trip to Desecheo Island off the coast of Puerto Rico. Friedman concentrates on Kyger’s interest in connecting with Beat writers (mainly through dreams) and compares what Kyger calls the “maritime zone” of Desecheo Island to William S. Burroughs’s Interzone, made famous in his Naked Lunch. Friedman shows Kyger finding her voice and identity as a woman, separate from the Beats yet akin to them in breaking new literary territory.
Title: Joanne Kyger’s Desecheo Notebook and the Beat Veneration
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Amy Friedman’s essay introduces an important aspect of Kyger’s writing practice, journal as genre, in a close reading of Desecheo Notebook, a chapbook published in 1971 that describes her trip to Desecheo Island off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Friedman concentrates on Kyger’s interest in connecting with Beat writers (mainly through dreams) and compares what Kyger calls the “maritime zone” of Desecheo Island to William S.
Burroughs’s Interzone, made famous in his Naked Lunch.
Friedman shows Kyger finding her voice and identity as a woman, separate from the Beats yet akin to them in breaking new literary territory.
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