Word: werden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Native Austinite Frieda Werden, editor and publisher of Texan Women and published in Shenandoah, Cedar Rock, Lucille, and Texas Quarterly, among others, admits to Kuzminsky's influence on her own writing, but in her politically potent verse she relies heavily on women's progress from traditional southwestern upbringing into the feminist sophistication of the Eighties. The following is an excerpt from "The Lady in Pink...
...Werden claims that the truly unique writing is being produced by women, by virtue of its content, because they are releasing much previously repressed material, and "... as with any repressed group that becomes articulate, a new content is revealed...
...relevant to Austin's literary evolution as Werden's thoughts on evolving womanhood is the dynamic outburst of newcomer Andy Clausen, who speaks daringly for the working class in colloquial language, describing the passions of a poetic soul trying to fulfill the mundane requirements of job and family. Clausen gained important support in San Francisco, where he published Renegade, from Beat hero Allen Ginsberg, who last year staged a reading at a local Austin club called Liberty Lunch for the purpose of exposing Clausen, whom Ginsberg calls "a great poet." If there are to be any popular stars...