ruth weiss was a German-born poet, performer, playwright and artist who made her home and career in the United States. weiss was an artist of the Beat Generation, a label she embraced later in her life and that is used frequently by historians detailing her life and works.
weiss spelled her name in lowercase as such as a symbolic protest against "law and order," since in her birthplace of Germany all nouns are spelled capitalized.
--from wikipedia
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