Stuart Perkoff

Stuart Z. Perkoff' was an American Beat poet, who lived and worked in Venice Beach and other parts of Northern California. Voices of the Lady is a collection of Stuart Z. Perkoff's poetry.

"Biographically, Perkoff was the quintessential (one might even say the stereotypical) Beatnik: a feckless, usually broke substance-user with benign intentions who nevertheless couldn’t fulfill responsibilities to much of anything other than his art; who served years in prison, got out at age 40, and didn’t even make it to 44. One of the tenets of beat philosophy was voluntary poverty, the willingness to do without things in order to create space in one’s life for rewards more nourishing and necessary..." -Pat Hartman