Bob Kaufman

Bob Kaufman ( born April 18, 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana; † January 12, 1986 in San Francisco, full name Robert Garnell Kaufman ) had a size of the Beat poets and beatniks, Surrealist. He was inspired by the Jazz. In France he was known as " the black American Rimbaud. "

Life

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

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

Writings

• Abomunist Manifesto. City Lights, San Francisco 1958.
• Second of 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.
• Watch My Tracks. Knopf, 1971
• Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978. New Directions, New York 1981.
• 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.