Ray Bremser is the King of the Jazz Beat Poets. With Ray's recent passing, he'll be missed by those who he left and those yet to discover his work.

This is a must for any fan of the Beat Generation...the first published works of Ray Bremser, a poet so dedicated to his craft that he made his wife turn tricks to support him so he could survive as a poet. He also convinced her to sell their child so he could use the money to get out of Mexican prison. That, of course, has nothing to do with the poems contained within this volume but doesn't it just make you wonder what sort of verse a man like that would come up with? A heavy dose of jazz verse for the serious-minded bohemian.

Bonnie Bremser's matter-of-fact, fascinating story of her brief prostitution, somewhat coerced by circumstance - her Beat poet husband Ray was wanted by the police so they were on the lamb in Mexico. Told in a true, unglamorized diary style which maintains the feeling of her life and the times they lived in, as well as some of the unintentionally amusing, dated Beat lingo, it keeps you reading, and wishing there was a sequel.