{"product_id":"collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman-paperback","title":"Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBob Kaufman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDevorah Major\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eNeeli Cherkovski\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2020 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\u003c\/em\u003e is the most comprehensive selection of his verse to date, a volume that contains a lot of previously uncollected work. ... this book makes a case for him as a perceptive and eccentric American original, a man who seems to have fallen out of the sky like a meteor.--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body of work is small but voluminous in intensity, spirit and soul, with a lineage that runs from Charles Baudelaire to Charles Mingus. Kaufman--with his commitment to the art, his surreal eye on the urban experience and beyond it, and his jazz timing--brings San Francisco to life.--\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwentieth-century American poetry cannot be fully comprehended without Bob Kaufman. City Lights and the editors do a grand service to literature by publishing Kaufman's poetry in one collection. ... This is a necessary gift for poets and poetry readers.--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He was an original voice. No one else talked like him. No one else wrote poetry like him.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Kaufman (1925-1986) was one of the most important--and most original--poets of the twentieth century. He is among the inaugurators of what today is characterized as the Afro-Surreal, uniting the surrealist practice of automatic writing with the jazz concept of spontaneous composition. He seldom wrote his poems down and often discarded those he did, leaving them to be rescued by others. He was also a legendary figure of the Beat Generation, known as much for hopping on tables to declaim his poetry as for maintaining a monastic silence for months or even years at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaufman produced just three broadsides and three books in his lifetime. In 1967, \u003cem\u003eGolden Sardine\u003c\/em\u003e was published by City Lights in its famed Pocket Poets Series, and became an instant cult classic. \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a landmark poetic achievement, bringing together all of Kaufman's known surviving poems, including an extensive section of previously uncollected work, in a long overdue return to City Lights Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Kaufman volcanically en-veined the Beats as a mirage enveloped Surrealist; not as a formal poet, but one, like Rimbaud, who embodied butane. Following the scent of his butane on one anonymous North Beach afternoon led Philip Lamantia to audibly utter to me that Bob Kaufman as per incandescent singularity is 'our poet.'--\u003cstrong\u003eWill Alexander\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCompression \u0026amp; Purity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBob Kaufman is one of our most vulnerable, mysterious, and beautiful poets, a nomadic maudit, surrealist saint of the streets, votary of silence, the consummate Outrider with trickster imagination and visionary power.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eAnne Waldman\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eTrickster Feminism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUplifting the voice of this under-sung literary master to future's light is the mission of the \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\u003c\/em\u003e. This poet's poet on the cliff edge of no ledge is still continuing to foster new surrealizations. Read this bebopian wordsmith, his pen turned saxophone and ink notes that are black tears.--\u003cstrong\u003eKamau Da ood\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Saxophones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo call these poems 'surreal' seems, now, to muffle Kaufman's prophetic genius. He saw us, our images in pools of blood, milk, and saxophone spittle. Maybe it was ever our shivering made the ripples that distorted the reflections.--\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Kearney\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBuck Studies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollected Poems of Bob Kaufman\u003c\/em\u003e should finally liberate the kaleidoscopic surrealism of this San Franciscan, and in many respects, secular Franciscan, poet from the shadows of Allen Ginsberg and the other Beats. ... \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoriam of unmitigated joy and abysmal despair.--\u003cstrong\u003eTyrone Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAs iZ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBob Kaufman \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in New Orleans in 1925 and spent the 1940s in the Merchant Marine. After a brief period as a labor organizer, he lived a peripatetic existence before settling in San Francisco in the late '50s, where he published three broadsides with City Lights Books. In 1959, he co-founded \u003cem\u003eBeatitude\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and maintained a decade-long vow of silence after the assassination of President Kennedy. He published two books during the 1960s, \u003cem\u003eSolitudes Crowded with Loneliness\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGolden Sardine\u003c\/em\u003e, and a third book, \u003cem\u003eThe Ancient Rain\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1981. He died in San Francisco in 1986. He is considered by many to be the finest jazz poet of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNeeli Cherkovski\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of many books of poetry, including \u003cem\u003eAnimal\u003c\/em\u003e (1996), \u003cem\u003eFrom the Canyon Outward\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eThe Crow and I\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), and \u003cem\u003eElegy for My Beat Generation\u003c\/em\u003e (2018). He is the coeditor of \u003cem\u003eAnthology of L.A. Poets \u003c\/em\u003e(with Charles Bukowski) and \u003cem\u003eCross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco \u003c\/em\u003e(with Bill Mohr). He has also published editions of his poems in Austria, Mexico, Italy, Germany, and Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaymond Foye\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, curator, and editor based in New York City. He is the executor for the poets John Wieners, James Schuyler, and Rene Ricard, and has edited numerous editions of their works. Currently he is preparing an edition of the final unpublished poems of Gregory Corso from the years 1980-2000. He is also the publisher of Raymond Foye Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTate Swindell\u003c\/strong\u003e is the founder of Unrequited Records, which specializes in poetry records released in vinyl format. His collections of writing include \u003cem\u003ePalpitations, Tearing Down Walls of Cellars and Basements, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Creation of Deadlines\u003c\/em\u003e. Tate, and his brother Todd, worked extensively on the Harold Norse archives, which were donated to the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. He is currently working on an album of rare Gregory Corso readings from the late 1970s and early 80s that includes previously unpublished poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003edevorah major\u003c\/strong\u003e served as San Francisco's Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006). She has published two novels, four poetry books, and four poetry chapbooks, along with two young adult titles, and a host of short stories, essays, and individual poems published in anthologies and periodicals. Among her awards is a First Novelist award from the Black Caucus of the ALA and a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. She is a Senior Adjunct Professor at California College of the Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 12, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758115258656,"sku":"9780872867697","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a376bf8a1c3c56be36f92dba9eda23c9.webp?v=1780118402","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/collected-poems-of-bob-kaufman-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}