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"Women were just coming into
their power."
Self-reliance became the key to
success for women Beat writers.
They were not afraid to “get
their hands dirty,” Knight recalls.
“They were compassionate,
careless, charismatic, marching
to a di erent drummer, out of
step. Muses who birthed a
poetry so raw and new and full
of power it changed the world.”
BUDDHISM IN FEMALE BEAT
POETRY: According to Ross
Webster, in the 1950’s Beat poets Source: Engin Akyurt, Pexels
sought out Buddhist studies. The
practice of zazen (sitting "Buddhism is the underlying
meditation) became common,
and Buddhist elements began to interconnectedness of all
emerge in their poetry. phenomena, and the inseparability
of body, speech, and mind."
Source: Pixabay,Pexels
Kyger emphasizes the
importance of introspection
and re ection in this process.
According to the Naropa
Institute she claims focusing
on “the words of the
moment, what's happening in
the world of interior and
exterior space'' is what
matters when writing.
