Grand Old Diva

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Preface XI
4. Ruth weiss at Last: Introducing the Poet XV
5. Part One: Beyond Poetry
6. Tribute to ruth weiss upon receiving the medal of honor by the City of Vienna in 2006 1
7. RUTH IN THE HOUSE 7
8. Future A.D. with Tate 9
9. ARCHITECTURE 13
10. Ruth 15
11. THE BIG NINE-OH 17
12. RUTHFUL 19
13. Can’t stop the beat 21
14. Soft Memories 23
15. Grand Old Diva 25
16. Buon’ Compleanno, RUTH!! 27
17. In the desert 29
18. Day 25 (Diary excerpt) 31
19. Part Two: Poetry, Jazz & Art
20. Ruth weiss: Transnationalism and Resistance 35
21. “Vienna. not quite.”: Place, Movement, and Identity in ruth weiss’ Poetry 51
22. “How real is i?”: Gender and Poetics in ruth weiss 67
23. Ruth weiss and the Poetics of the Desert 81
24. Reaching Towards the Light: Transitory Spaces and the Negated Material Body in Selected Texts by ruth weiss 99
25. Traditionally New: The Jazz & Poetry Work of ruth weiss 113
26. “Being tested”: ruth weiss at the Summer of Love 2007 127
27. Oral History Interview with ruth weiss 147
28. Ruth weiss and Visual Art: The Watercolor Haiku Series A Fool’s Journey and Banzai! 159
29. “Go to the roundhouse, he can’t corner you there”: The Brink (1961), ruth weiss’ Poetic Film 179
30. Ruth weiss, Luminosity Procured 195
31. The ruth weiss Papers 205
32. Ruth weiss: Complete Bibliography 223
33. Notes on Contributors 259
34. Index 265