Bob Kaufman

Bob Kaufman (born April 18, 1925 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † January 12, 1986 in San Francisco ; full name Robert Garnell Kaufman ) was a great of beat poets and beatniks , surrealist . He was inspired by jazz. In France he was known as "the Black American Rimbaud ."

Life

Kaufman was the son of a German Jew and a Roman Catholic black from Martinique . He grew up with 13 siblings. In the early 1940s he began studying literature at The New School in New York , where he met William S. Burroughs , Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg . In 1944 he married Ida Berrocal. From this marriage in 1945 a daughter, Antoinette Victoria, born in New York City. In 1958, Kaufman married Eileen Singe in North Beach , San Francisco , and had a son, Parker, named after the jazz musician Charlie Parker.

Along with other poets ( Allen Ginsberg , John Kelly and William Margolis ) he was one of the founders of Beatitude Magazine .

Fonts

Abomunist Manifesto. City Lights, San Francisco 1958.
Second April. City Lights, San Francisco 1958.
Does the Secret Mind Whisper? City Lights, San Francisco 1959.
Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness. New Directions, New York 1965.
Golden sardine. City Lights, San Francisco 1967. Published by Mary Beach

Sardine Dorée , translation into French by Mary Beach, Christian Bourgois éditeur, Paris 1976

Watch My Tracks. Knopf, 1971
Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978. New Directions, New York 1981.
with Gerald Nicosia: Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman. Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN 1996.
Eileen Kaufman: Keeper of the Flame. In: Brenda Knight: Women of the Beat Generation. The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution. Conari, New York 2000, pp. 103-114.

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personal data
SURNAME	Kaufman, Bob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaufman, Robert Garnell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American beat poet
DATE OF BIRTH	April 18, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans , Louisiana, USA
DATE OF DEATH	January 12, 1986
Place of death	San Francisco