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Summary: ghost of verse
Review: Bob Kaufman was one of two things, highly overlooked, and cursed with genius. He was of the San Francisco Renaissance, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, et al. A BEAT, for lack of better...hailed by the French as the American Rimbaud. His writing I liken to the paintings of Jean Michel Basquiat, for their paranoid intensity, powerful confrontation, and schizophrenic cognizance. Like Basquiat, Kaufman's life was lived fast and blazing, like a nova, or shooting star, beautiful to watch and quick to collapse. He was the best of the so-called BEAT writers, his poetry is true jazz and of the streets. Le pauvre garcon, mon couer mon dieux, encre en feu.
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Summary: ghost of verse
Review: Bob Kaufman was one of two things, highly overlooked, and cursed with genius. He was of the San Francisco Renaissance, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, et al. A BEAT, for lack of better...hailed by the French as the American Rimbaud. His writing I liken to the paintings of Jean Michel Basquiat, for their paranoid intensity, powerful confrontation, and schizophrenic cognizance. Like Basquiat, Kaufman's life was lived fast and blazing, like a nova, or shooting star, beautiful to watch and quick to collapse. He was the best of the so-called BEAT writers, his poetry is true jazz and of the streets. Le pauvre garcon, mon couer mon dieux, encre en feu.
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Summary: What a great riffer!
Review: To those young poets who take part in poetry slams...check out Kaufman. All of his poetry was improvised into being, he never wrote anything down. His wife kept up a steady stream of shorthand, then transcribed it...if not for her, we'd never know how great Kaufman really was. His poetry is lyrical, funny, touching and surreal all at the same time. You have to read it to believe it!
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Summary: What a great riffer!
Review: To those young poets who take part in poetry slams...check out Kaufman. All of his poetry was improvised into being, he never wrote anything down. His wife kept up a steady stream of shorthand, then transcribed it...if not for her, we'd never know how great Kaufman really was. His poetry is lyrical, funny, touching and surreal all at the same time. You have to read it to believe it!
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