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within the greater whole. Every day, the gender-warping subject of the poem has a new area of exploration and revelation, and the poem brings the reader through the highs and lows, the turmoil and peace, that the disembodied protagonist transverses. She began writing this poem in 1961 and spent seven years on it, not completing it until 1968. It was published in 1977. She described this poem, like the bulk of her work, as a performance piece, a piece whose meaning she can fully express only through enacting it.

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moved to the Old French Quarter in New Orleans. In 1952 she decided to move to San Francisco, where she began jamming and reading poetry with street musicians. In 1956, her friends Jack Minger, Sonny Nelson and Wil Carlson, opened a club called The Cellar, in which she would hold poetry and jazz sessions every Wednesday night. Eventually, weiss felt that she needed a break from city life and took off for California's

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she bring it downstairs and read it to the musicians. The musicians, far from halting their music to listen, listened by continuing to jam as she read, and likewise, weiss listened to and communicated with their jazz by incorporating it into her poem. It is that experience that she credited as the beginning of her "whole thing with jazz and poetry."

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Finally, weiss declared that while she is not a "street poet" in the traditional sense, her work resonates most in "street" settings or other unexpected places. She found that her work was often most acclaimed, connected with and called for in places ranging from streets to pizza places and gay bars,

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weiss recounts a night in 1949 while she was living in the Art Circle of Chicago. On this night, there was a crowd of people in her building having a jazz jam session downstairs while weiss was preoccupied writing in her room. However, a friend of hers paid a visit, read her work and recommended that

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An award winning feature documentary has been made about her life story called "ruth weiss, the beat goddess" directed by Melody C. Miller and produced by Elisabeth P. Montgomery. The film premiered at the Asolo Art Film Festival in Italy and won Best Documentary at the Peekskill Film Festival in New

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weiss details the events at The Cellar following her departure. In regards to the poetry-jazz sessions, she tells her interviewer, "...other well-known poets, whose names I'm not going to mention because everyone knows them, ended up doing the same thing. Only they were very smart. They recorded them

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described weiss as "master of the eraser." It is this ability to "erase" that characterizes weiss's work and that she herself found most pivotal to her style. She described it as epitomizing the process that she went through with all her work: the idea of non-linearity, of beginning with a core and

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weiss left home in 1949, at first staying in Chicago where she moved into the Art Circle - a housing community for artists. It was in this community that she began experimenting with poetry and jazz. In 1950, she left Chicago and hitchhiked to Greenwich Village in New York City, then later in 1950

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is the work that weiss herself described as her masterpiece and her most significant work to-date. The piece is an exploration of a mind in a desert. The poem's subject spends 40 days and nights in a desert and each day of the desert is limited to a poem of five pages, each day being its own poem

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Her focus upon succinctness and discipline is epitomized in her predilection for haiku. She relished the haiku for the discipline it imposes upon the writer and the way it forces the "fat" to be cut away from the poem, revealing the most essential elements of language.

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In 2020, The ruth weiss Foundation was created to celebrate the life and legacy of the renowned poet and author. The Foundation's mission is to create opportunities to help aspiring and under-served poets and artists through an annual grant/scholarship.

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In 1961, weiss finished her narrative poem "The Brink." Upon reviewing her poem, the painter Paul Beattie asked if weiss could turn it into a film script, a request which she willingly obliged. By 1961, weiss had finished her creation and filming of

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The philosophy behind her work incorporates several interlinking components: being a "street poet," being a "jazz poet," the idea of non-linearity and fragmentation, the idea of discipline and the bare "bones" of language.

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and got records out of them. So nobody knows that I did this, innovate jazz and poetry in San Francisco in 1956 at The Cellar." During this period in her life, she also began publishing proliferously in the magazine

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In 1957, weiss started a "salon kind of situation" in her apartment, creating a gathering space for poets and writers to read and discuss their works. It was also in that year that she married her first husband,

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She asserted that, during the 1960s, she began spelling her name solely in lower case as a symbolic protest against "law and order", since in her birthplace of Germany all nouns are spelled capitalized.

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would drop in and the three of them would drive off, adventuring outwards in California at dangerous speeds up dangerous hills, thriving on the excitement of the ride and one another's presence.

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though weiss did not yet know that he had written and published a book. Instead, weiss and Kerouac engaged in a "haiku dialogue," spending hours over a bottle of wine writing

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Encarnación-Pinedo, Estíbaliz. “Beat & Beyond: Memoir, Myth and Visual Arts in Women of the Beat Generation.” Dissertation. Universidad de Murcia, 2016.

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Antonic, Thomas. "From the Margin of the Margin to the 'Goddess of the Beat Generation': ruth weiss in the Beat Field, or: 'It's Called Marketing, Baby.'" In

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Pointl, Stefanie. “‘This Is My Home—This Wandering’: Exile and Transnational Mobility in ruth weiss’s Poetry.” Master’s thesis. University of Vienna, 2019.

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She also cited being inspired by the "oral tradition." She explained this in light of her close friendship and artistic connection with the famed poet

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However, as she primarily considered herself a "jazz poet," she also credited jazz and bebop as the art most influential upon her own. In

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a reflection on her escape from Nazi Germany. Her work also had a three-month exhibition at the San Francisco Public Library.

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had, in her words, a "fantastic connection on multiple levels." It was two years after Kerouac had published his first novel,

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The great poets of the Beat Generation, the story of ruth weiss who escaped nazism, and wanted the small name in protest.

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paying homage to the female poets whom she most admired by painting their portraits through her jazz-inspired poetry.

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In 1990, weiss won the Bay Area poetry slam and consequently released recordings of her poetry performance, entitled

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and spent much time hitchhiking and writing - two skills that would prove pivotal to her future in the American

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weiss came from a climate of political turmoil. Born to a Jewish family in the tumultuous years of the rise of

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In 1967, weiss met the artist Paul Blake (1945-2014), who became her longtime companion and collaborator.

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and at many jazz and poetry festivals, including appearances at the San Francisco Beat Festival in 2016.

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Beat scene. In 1948, weiss and her parents moved back to the United States, resettling in Chicago.

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Similarly, this focus upon "cutting out the fat" lies at the heart of her artistic journey with

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Blows Like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture

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San Francisco's Wild History Groove: Underground Artists and Poets from the California Beat Era

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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution.

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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution.

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Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution.

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Spandler, Horst. “ruth weiss and the American Beat Movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s.” In

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allowing the essential fragments that develop to become the substance of the piece.

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Ed. by Frida Forsgren and Michael J. Prince. Kristiansand: Portal Books, 2015.

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incorporating "found objects" into her style and philosophy towards the film.

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and, from there, moved on to Chicago. She excelled academically at school in

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She has published many poems and anthologies in recent years, including

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