
Blowing Mouth
Bremser, Ray45 USD
Date
1958
Category
Poetry
Description
A collection of poems by Ray Bremser whom Allen Ginsberg once described as "a better poet than I".
At 17, Bremser was briefly imprisoned after he went AWOL from the US Air Force. The next year, the court sentenced him to 6 years at Bordentown Reformatory for armed robbery. He began writing poetry there.
Bremser sent copies to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones). They published his poems in Yūgen, a beat poetry magazine for "A New Consciousness in the Arts and Letters.”
Excerpt
an occasional relapse
into sick-as-a-dog &
moan & maybe cool it
temporarily…
all to an up-tempo!)
SCREAM, too…
no reason not to!
nothing under the sun to!
noplace to go
might as well to!
forever…& it’s truly beautiful anyway.)