Joanne Kyger (1934-)

A selective list of online literary criticism for Joanne Kyger, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Pages

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Literary criticism

Raskin, Jonah. A review of About Now: Collected Poems by Joanne Kyger. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation; 2007. The Beat Review 1, 2 (Oct. 2007)

Russo, Linda. "To be Jack Spicer in a dream." Jacket Magazine 7 (April 1999). About Joanne Kyger's early years in San Francisco and the influence of Jack Spicer then.

A special section on Joanne Kyger, with articles about her poetry and some poems. Jacket Magazine 11 (April 2000)

"Joanne Kyger." Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo. Links to articles on Kyger and some poems

A brief biography of Joanne Kyger from the U of Calif. San Diego library

Hayward, Michael. The publishing history of Beat writers, MA thesis (1991)

Gary Snyder and Joanne Kyger photo, Kyoto 1963, by Allen Ginsberg. Many more photos of Kyger, at the Allen Ginsberg Project.

The San Francisco Renaissance

Gioia, Dana. "Fallen Western Star: The Decline of San Francisco as a Literary Region." Denver Quarterly (Fall 1998). Responses to Gioia's article. Poetry Flash

Rexroth, Kenneth. "Rexroth's San Francisco." Rexroth on the arrival of the Beats. The San Francisco Examiner 1960-1975

"The Beats, San Francisco." The Psychedelic '60s: Literary Tradition and Social Change, online exhibit of objects and books from the Univ. of Virginia Library, Special Collections Dept.

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