Claude P\u00e9lieu, a French poet marked by the Algerian War and heroin, arrived in San Francisco in 1963 with his wife Mary Beach, a translator and cultural mediator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple became a key link between the Beats and the European avant-garde: they translated Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kaufman, published Carl Solomon’s Mishaps, Perhaps (a tribute to Artaud), and experimented with cut-up\u2014a technique already used by the Dadaists and Surrealists, but renamed by Burroughs. Mary Beach, a little-known figure, sacrificed her painting to promote these works, while P\u00e9lieu merged script-vite<\/em>, collage, and spontaneous poetry, continuing the legacy of Artaud and the momos<\/em>. Their work, between San Francisco and New York, connected Kaufman, Cohen, and Patti Smith, while anchoring French counterculture in the Beat movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Claude P\u00e9lieu, a French poet marked by the Algerian War and heroin, arrived in San Francisco in 1963 with his wife Mary Beach, a translator and cultural mediator. The couple became a key link between the Beats and the European avant-garde: they translated Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kaufman, published Carl Solomon’s Mishaps, Perhaps (a tribute to … <\/p>\n