ruth weiss: Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art

Published by De Gruyter 2021

ruth weiss

Beat Poetry, Jazz, Art

Edited by: Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo and Thomas Antonic

Volume 3 in the series American Frictions

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694550

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About this book

ruth weiss, born in Berlin in 1928 to Austrian-Jewish parents, arrived in San Francisco in 1952 after hitchhiking through the United States. Crowned years later as the “Goddess of the Beat Generation” by San Francisco Chronicle critic Herb Caen, weiss has worked for almost seven decades with a plurality of artistic forms. Despite her extensive poetry career and very active participation in the West Coast buzzing artistic community since the early 1950s, weiss has remained an essentially overlooked figure in poetry history. This neglect might be representative of the overshadowing of female artists within the Beat Generation as “a marginalized group within an always already marginalized bohemia” (Johnson). The volume taps directly into this lacuna by proving the first close study on one of the most prolific members of the so-called Beat Generation. Offering diverse and comprehensive points of entrance into weiss’s oeuvre, the essays in this volume adopt a multidisciplinary approach that attests to the cross-pollination between art forms in postwar counterculture. In addition, the volume also includes shorter, non-academic contributions and previously unpublished archival material. Bringing together scholars, academics and artists from around the world, this volume represents a timely and much-needed response to the increasing interest in weiss’s work in the last decades.

Author / Editor information

Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo, Defence University Center, San Javier, Spain; Thomas Antonic, University of Vienna, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Preface A. Robert Lee Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Ruth weiss at Last: Introducing the Poet Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo and Thomas Antonic Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Part One: Beyond Poetry
Tribute to ruth weiss upon receiving the medal of honor by the City of Vienna in 2006 Stefan Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
RUTH IN THE HOUSE Anne Waldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Future A.D. with Tate Tate Swindell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
ARCHITECTURE John Wieners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Ruth Janet DeBar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
THE BIG NINE-OH Mary Norbert Körte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
RUTHFUL Agneta Falk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Can’t stop the beat S.A. Griffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Soft Memories Pete Winslow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Grand Old Diva A.D. Winans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Buon’ Compleanno, RUTH!! Jack Hirschman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
In the desert Neeli Cherkovski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Day 25 (Diary excerpt) Steven Arnold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Part Two: Poetry, Jazz & Art
Ruth weiss: Transnationalism and Resistance Benjamin J. Heal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
“Vienna. not quite.”: Place, Movement, and Identity in ruth weiss’ Poetry Stefanie Pointl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
“How real is i?”: Gender and Poetics in ruth weiss Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Ruth weiss and the Poetics of the Desert Polina Mackay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Reaching Towards the Light: Transitory Spaces and the Negated Material Body in Selected Texts by ruth weiss Chad Weidner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Traditionally New: The Jazz & Poetry Work of ruth weiss Hannes Höfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
“Being tested”: ruth weiss at the Summer of Love 2007 Peggy Pacini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Oral History Interview with ruth weiss Caroline Crawford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Ruth weiss and Visual Art: The Watercolor Haiku Series A Fool’s Journey and Banzai! Frida Forsgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
“Go to the roundhouse, he can’t corner you there”: The Brink (1961), ruth weiss’ Poetic Film Lars Movin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Ruth weiss, Luminosity Procured Steve Seid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The ruth weiss Papers Thomas Antonic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Ruth weiss: Complete Bibliography Thomas Antonic and Paul Pechmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Researchers, University Lecturers, Scholars interested in Post-War Poetry and the Beat Generation
Pages
- Front matter: 23
- Main content: 268
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
Keywords: ruth weiss; Jazz & Poetry; Beat Generation; Counterculture

eBook

Published: October 4, 2021
ISBN: 9783110694550

Hardcover

Published: October 4, 2021
ISBN: 9783110694420

Paperback

Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111262185