Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones
Hettie Jones is the author of numerous books, including her memoir of the Beat scene
Hettie signs contract to write proposal for Rita Marley memoir, and goes to Jamaica. At Naropa, Hettie meets Helene’s old friends Lucia Berlin and Jane Wodening Brakhage, suggests that she and Helene visit them, but nothing entices. Hettie confesses she never understood email’s potential for loss, regrets losing some letters. Helene thinks “HD” on her new Mac indicates her own registration—but it’s the hard drive icon; she begins to refer to herself as “Hard Drive.” In SF for ALA Convention, Hettie meets Chan, Helene’s daughter, and Chan’s teacher Robert Hass. At home Hettie worries about teaching “Beat poetry” seminar for...
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