Ray Bremser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Beat poet
Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1934
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 03-Nov-1998
Profession: poet
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Ray Bremser
- Ray Bremser (February 22, 1934 – November 3, 1998) was an American poet married to Bonnie Bremser (née Bonnie Frazer). 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 Bordentown Reformatory for 6 years for armed robbery.
- He began writing poetry there and sent copies to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka), who published his poems in "Yugen" and threw a big party for him when he got out of jail in 1958. In 1959, Ray met and married Brenda Frazer, her name changing to Bonnie Bremser.
- In 1969 Troia was published from her prison letters to Ray, detailing her 1960s life on the road as a prostitute in Mexico, to support him and their child Rachel while Ray was on the lam or behind bars.
- Ronna Johnson's entry in BookForum: ".
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- Bonnie met and married the Beat poet Ray Bremser in 1959, having known him for three weeks.
- Two years later, they were on the lam in Mexico with their baby, Rachel, fugitives from the New Jersey prison authorities, which were pursuing Ray for violating parole.
- This flight, the manifest subject of Troia, is recounted in the daily two-page letters Bonnie Bremser wrote to Ray from March to November 1963, during his second incarceration.
- She retrospectively details her life of prostitution on the road in Mexico and the couple’s desperate relinquishment of Rachel there."
- He had five books of his poetry published and was featured in the 1987 film The Beat Generation: An American Dream.He died in 1998 of lung cancer.
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