Desert journal

Weiss, Ruth

Good Gay Poets

Single out

D'Aurora Press

From author ruth weiss on writing DESERT JOURNAL: a life of its own — this book DESERT JOURNAL. thought it would be novel to write a novel. do the math. 5 x 4 = 200. so for 40 days do 5 pages. decision. 5 pages non-stop each day whatever surfaces. even if only one word per page. forget characters &amp; plot. this is a novel moderne. focus — the internal desert. being a water-sign — most fearful place the desert. need to explore that place. had never been to the actual desert. 1961. begin. it was finished in 1968. 7 years. readings through those years had audience call numbers up to the point of completion. someone would always ask “how do you know this about me?” DESERT JOURNAL has a life of its own. i’m only the instrument. sent manuscript out. no takers. 1975. went to NEW YORK CITY. in &amp; out of publishing houses. no takers. back home in SAN FRANCISCO. no mistaking the message. MAGNETIZE THE CALL FOR IT. a week later. phone call from BOSTON. CHARLEY SHIVELY of GOOD GAY POETS press. had heard me at WILD SIDE WEST, a women’s bar in SAN FRANCISCO. i had mentioned looking for a publisher. DESERT JOURNAL came out in 1977. currently i’ve stolen lines from it &amp; collaged into new poems — LIGHT WORKS, BYPASS LINZ, &amp; SUICIDE DREAMS. 40 days — 7 years. those numbers have far-reaching biblical references. was not aware of that. now, thanks to DAVID BRINKS of TREMBLING PILLOW press in NEW ORLEANS, this book continues as a reprint. on a life of its own.

Desert Journal

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Trembling Pillow Press

Take a journey into the heart and passion of one of the most brilliant voices of the American Counter-Culture Movement. While men took the spotlight, it was women like ruth weiss who would breathe feminine spirit into the fight for equality between the sexes, the races, and the classes. Celebrated in Europe and under-acknowledged* in the US, during the course of her life ruth weiss innovated poetry with jazz in the San Francisco North Beach scene of the 1950s with contemporaries Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bob Kaufman, and others. For the first time in print, one of the last of the original Beat poets ruth weiss presents two masterpiece long form poems: COMPASS (about a road trip through Mexico) and I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU BLACK (a tribute to her African-American artist friends). Also included are two short form poems TEN TEN and POST-CARD 1995, and a biography of ruth weiss’ life by Horst Spandler: ruth weiss and the American Beat Movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s. * Largely unacknowledged as an innovator of poetry with jazz, ruth weiss pioneered an art form for which Bob Kaufman, Allen Ginsberg and other men of the era would receive most of the credit.

Can't Stop the Beat: The Life and Words of a Beat Poet

Divine Arts

""I had to save Rhodesia.""Thus Sir Garfield Todd, a towering figure in the history of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, defined his mission. He was a missionary from New Zealand who became a Zimbabwean and six years after entering politics became Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia in the early years of the ill-fated Central African Federation. He highlighted the dilemmas experienced by white liberals--derided by whites and denounced by black nationalists as sell-outs. Garfield Todd combined high intelligence, strong self-will, immense energy, great oratory and a sense of high moral purpose, but was a man of contradictions. He entered politics to oppose racial discrimination yet joined, and eventually led, the establishment party of white privilege. Todd has a unique and major place in the making of Zimbabwe, and in the history of Southern Africa and modern Africa.

Sir Garfield Todd and the Making of Zimbabwe (British Academic Press)

History

Africa

I.B.Tauris

Meine Schwester Sara.

Contemporary

DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch

Die Löws - Schwere Prüfung: Eine jüdische Familiensaga in Deutschland

Edition AV, Verlag

Wege im harten Gras: Erinnerungen an Deutschland, Südafrika und England (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

P. Hammer

A New View Of Matter

Small Press Distribution

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