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Hettie Jones (née Cohen; born in 1934) is an 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 .
25 de mai. de 2024 · Hettie Jones is a poet, memoirist, and publisher who was married to LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka. She won the Norma Farber First Book Award for her debut collection, Drive, and founded Yugen and Totem Press with Jones.
10 de abr. de 2018 · Best known for How I Became Hettie Jones, her memoir of the Beat Scene, Hettie Jones has published 26 books for children and adults, the first in 1971 and the most recent in 2016. Drive , her first poetry collection, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award and was followed by All Told and Doing 70 .
Hettie Jones (born 1934 as Hettie Cohen) is best known as the first wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. While known for her poetry, she has received acclaim for her memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones (published 1990 by Grove Press).
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13 de jan. de 2014 · Hilton Als pays tribute to Hettie Jones, the overlooked writer and mother of Amiri Baraka's children, in The New Yorker. He recalls his childhood visits to their East Village apartment and their literary and artistic circle.
1 de dez. de 2007 · About the author (2007) 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 into a middle-class...
1 de ago. de 2005 · August 1, 200512:00 AM ET. By. Hettie Jones. Hettie Cohen moved to New York's Grenwich Village from Queens in the 1950s, where she married controversial black poet LeRoi Jones. Cultural...
