Resources

 

Published Books

  • Steps (1958)

  • Gallery of Women (1959)

  • South Pacific (1959)

  • Blue in Green (1960)

  • Light and Other Poems (1976)

  • Desert Journal (1977, new edition 2012 by Trembling Pillow Press)

  • Single Out (1978)

  • 13 Haiku (1986)

  • For These Women of the Beat (1997)

  • A New View of Matter / Nový pohled na věc (1999)

  • Full Circle / Ein Kreis vollendet sich (2002)

  • Africa (2003)

  • White is All Colors / Weiß ist alle Farben (2004)

  • No Dancing Aloud / Lautes Tanzen nicht erlaubt (2006)

  • Can't Stop the Beat: The Life and Words of a Beat Poet (2011)

  • A Fool's Journey / Die Reise des Narren (2012)

  • A Parallel Planet of People and Places (2012)

  • Einen Schritt weiter im Westen ist die See [One More Step West is the Sea] (2012)

  • The Snake Sez Yesssss / Die Schlange sagt Jetzzzzzt (2013)

Acting

  • The Brink (1961)

  • The Liberation of the Mannique Mechanique (1967), dir. Steven Arnold

  • Messages, Messages (1968), dir. Steven Arnold

  • Various Incantations of a Tibetan Seamstress (1969), dir. Steven Arnold

  • Luminous Procuress (1971), dir. Steven Arnold

  • Las Cuevas de Albion (2001)

  • Ibéria (2007), dir. Eddy Falconer

Documentaries

  • Oral history interview with ruth weiss (1993), Produced by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

  • Surprise Voyage (2001), dir. Paul Blake

  • Breaking the Rules: Across American Counterculture (2006), dir. Marco Müller

  • ruth weiss Meets Her Prometheus (2007), dir. Frederick Baker

  • San Francisco's Wild History Groove: Underground Artists and Poets from the California Beat Era (2011), dir. Mary Kerr

  • Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies (2019), dir. Vishnu Dass

  • ruth weiss, the beat goddess (2019), dir. Melody C. Miller


Further Reading

  • Knight, Brenda, Anne Waldman and Ann Charters. Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Berkeley: Conari Press, 1996.

  • “ruth weiss.” Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS) 24. Ed. Shelly Andrews. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996. 325– 353.

  • Grace, Nancy M. and Ronna C. Johnson. Breaking the Rule of Cool: Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004.

  • Whaley, Preston. Blows Like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2004.

  • Grace, Nancy M. "ruth weiss's DESERT JOURNAL: A Modern-Beat-Pomo Performance." In Reconstructing the Beats. Ed. by Jennie Skerl. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004.

  • Pointl, Stefanie. “‘This Is My Home—This Wandering’: Exile and Transnational Mobility in ruth weiss’s Poetry.” Master’s thesis. University of Vienna, 2019.

  • Spandler, Horst. “ruth weiss and the American Beat Movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s.” In Can’t Stop the Beat: The Life and Words of a Beat Poet. Los Angeles: Divine Arts, 2011.

  • Antonic, Thomas. "From the Margin of the Margin to the 'Goddess of the Beat Generation': ruth weiss in the Beat Field, or: 'It's Called Marketing, Baby.'" In Out of the Shadows: Beat Women Are Not Beaten Women. Ed. by Frida Forsgren and Michael J. Prince. Kristiansand: Portal Books, 2015.

  • Encarnación-Pinedo, Estíbaliz. “Beat & Beyond: Memoir, Myth and Visual Arts in Women of the Beat Generation.” Dissertation. Universidad de Murcia, 2016.

  • Carden, Mary Paniccia. Women Writers of the Beat Era: Autobiography and Intertextuality. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.