... Allen Ginsberg Ed Dorn Bill T. Jones new hearing aids first email ...

... have poetry published in the New Yorker . Helene mentions making book from ’60s letters, never does. Allen Ginsberg dies, Hettie reports funeral service. Ed Dorn is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Helene worries about memories, says she’ll die before he does, which Hettie says is scaring her...

... explained. The Dorns move to England. Hettie adjusts to solitary life. Helene worries about her from Colechester, where Ed teaches. Hettie gets and loses editing jobs, a relationship with saxophonist Marion Brown, writes a poem, is employed as writer for an antipoverty agency. Helene worries about England’s...

... on the “B” list (“wife of”) which she later thinks is “moral decay,” that she needs to develop humility, suffers from “sin of pride.” Helene says “bullshit—that needle pricks” and asks “how many of us are Zen saints.” In San Francisco Hettie with Joyce meet Tillie Olsen. Hettie reads at MoMA with Ed Sanders...

... papers for Ed in Idaho. Despite illness, she’s getting to studio. Hettie’s work schedule continues to be overwhelming, though between classes one day she has dinner with Marie Ponsot and Jean Valentine, “the two of them really nice.” Big reading “Event” at Bedford “was fabulous.” Hettie even hears from...

... Before Hettie can publish, Amiri’s book appears with her name changed; she is also shunned by contemporaries whenever he’s around. Helene reveals that the dedication to her in Ed’s republished novel has been deleted. Hettie, deciding her memoir may profit young women, continues to write, helped...

..., she twenty-five. Hettie worries the world will burst into flame because of Jews and Palestinians. Tom Clark’s bio of Ed praises Helene, and Creeley says she was “pioneer.” Hettie goes to Jamaica with Rita, will go to Africa in August. She and Helene write about being uncomfortable having “servants...