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.
Web links
- Works by Bob Kaufman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bob Kaufman: The Jazz Poet of the Streets
- Bob Kaufman on the Beat Museum website
- Modern American Poetry, Bob Kaufman
- Essay on Kaufman's O-Jazz-O
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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 |