#ray bremser

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Ray Bremser (1934-1998) - The Allen Ginsberg Project

A spotlight on Ray Bremser - one of the great neglected figures of the Beat Generation

“..In Bremser’s poetry we have powerful curious Hoboken language, crank-blast phrasing, rhythmic motion that moves forward in sections to climaxes of feeling. Imagination shifts in and out of heard-about places in space and rime. American primitive, jailhouse primitive, and dramatizes key ideas – personal empathy with Egypt and a Pop Art approach to Platonic archetypes. Where is the truth in this. The truth here is the realized expression of emotional awareness. Poesy a rhythmic articulation of feeling, emotional physiology vocalized…..” -- Allen Ginsberg

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american beat poets gregory corso & ray bremser at allen ginsberg’s apartment, nyc, 1959

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A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray

Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on travellers. Poverty seems a necessary part of the authentic road experience, since it involves exile from mundane existence and steady income. Like Jack Kerouac’s mythic progenitors Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, the duo around which the story revolves are penniless drifters on the road in Mexico. But Ray and Bonnie Bremser were newly married with a child, and so the text allows insight into their bohemian marriage. This article focuses on how the Beat path runs for the woman in the relationship, with differences becoming apparent when Bonnie begins to work as a prostitute in order to remedy their poverty.

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READINGS ϟ LINKS ϟ JULY 2014

Mohammed al-Ajami, (Poem from a Prison Cell). Translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid and Katrien Vanpee. On Pen America, June 5, 2014.

Ray Bremser, Poems of Madness. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg. At Cuneiform Press (June 2014—PDF).

Aloïse Corbaz, excerpts of texts embedded in a 1941 sketchbook. Transcribed by Jacqueline Porret-Forel. On UBUWEB.

Debbie Hu, The Hate Nipple. On Everyday Genius, July 13, 2012.

Joyce Mansour, Four Poems. Translated from the French by Gaelle Raphael. On Jadaliyya.

Wong May, Postscript. In Chicago Review, Issue 58:01 (Summer 2013).

Luna Miguel, Mermaid's Reef. Translated from the Spanish by Luis Silva. In Adult (Bedtime Stories), June 20, 2014.

Christopher Rey Pérez, from "the mexican". on smoking glue gun, June 4, 2014.

Kit Schluter, Notebooks (January 17-22). At Inpatient Press, February 6, 2014.

Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into The Sun (including I Found My Soul At The Bottom of the Pool). In The Brooklyn Rail, November 2013.

[photo: Aloïse Corbaz à l’asile de La Rosière, Gimel, 1963]

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Poet Ray Bremser on the fire escape of Allen Ginsberg's apartment in the East Village, NYC 1959.

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From The Rumpus:

Yesterday, avant-garde cinema legend Jonas Mekas posted remarkable archival footage of Allen Ginsberg, Frank O’hara, Amiri Baraka (who still went by Leroi Jones), and Ray Bremser reading together in 1959. The reading, which took place at the Living Theater in New York City, was a benefit for Yugen magazine. No audio was recorded at the event, but Mekas added audio (recorded in 1960) of Ginsberg reading “Sunflower Sutra.”

Being able to watch these masters goof around, smoke cigarettes, and share their work with each other is a treasure. It is especially astonishing to see O’Hara, as very few known videos of the definitive New York School poet exist today.