EAN: 9783111262185

RUTH WEISS

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includes shorter  non-academic contributions and previously unpublished archival material.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.

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