Ray Bremser

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Photograph of Bremser by Allen Ginsberg (1987)

Ray Bremser (February 22, 1934 – November 3, 1998) was an American poet.

Bremser was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. When he was 17 he went AWOL from the United States Air Force and was briefly imprisoned. The next year he was sent to Bordenstown Reformatory for 6 years for armed robbery. He began writing poetry there and sent copies to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amear Baraka), who published his poems in "Yugen" and threw a big party for him when he got out of jail in 1958.

Bremser read poetry in The Gaslight Cafe in the Greenwich Village neighborhood.^[1] He had five books of his poetry published and was featured in the 1987 film The Beat Generation: An American Dream.^[2]^[3]

He died in 1998 of lung cancer.

References

↑ "INTERVIEW WITH ALLEN GINSBERG (8/11/96)". The George Washington University. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
↑ IMDb
↑ The Beat Generation on YouTube. Accessed March 26, 2011.

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Name	Bremser, Ray
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Short description	Beat poet
Date of birth	February 22, 1934
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Date of death	November 3, 1998
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