Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones

by Hettie Jones

"It works, we're in business, yeah Babe " So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s and went on to successful artistic careers of their own. From their first meeting in 1960, writer Hettie Jones--then married to LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka)--and painter and sculptor Helene Dorn (1927-2004), wife of poet Ed Dorn, found in each other more than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361469
• ISBN13: 9780822361466
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"