Bob Kaufman is THE most important Beat poet. He manages to be almost totally unknown while his Selected Works won a National Book Award in 2020, almost 25 years after his death. Thanks to Poetic Outlaws for reminding us.
He was a saint sent to San Francisco where his writing is enshrined in Beat mausoleums and also wherever the new Oral Poetics is being heard and exchanged in public. Don't leave your search to AI. Go talk to a bookstore clerk or library associate about Bob Kaufman. For even more concision than the language of poets, try wiki:
How come I didn’t get to write this delicious line: “Every time I open my big mouth
I put my soul in it”?
Bob Kaufman is THE most important Beat poet. He manages to be almost totally unknown while his Selected Works won a National Book Award in 2020, almost 25 years after his death. Thanks to Poetic Outlaws for reminding us.
I have never heard of this poet. I adore this poem. So much beautiful wisdom. Thank you for introducing me to Bob Kaufman.
He was a saint sent to San Francisco where his writing is enshrined in Beat mausoleums and also wherever the new Oral Poetics is being heard and exchanged in public. Don't leave your search to AI. Go talk to a bookstore clerk or library associate about Bob Kaufman. For even more concision than the language of poets, try wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kaufman
He walked the earth as one of many caffeine toasts in Cafe Society of the Street Curbs......
Go out or stay in and spear yerself some Jazz Poetics....
Warmly,
Tio Mitchito
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Nice poncho. Perfect stache. Great hat. Mirror reflection even better. Name of business misleading: restaurant, art museum, coffee bean exhibition?
I like your rhythm…how it stirs like jazz in a storm.
The cadence crashes, resurrects, unravels.
A rebel’s breath tucked into a beat.
Waked eyes, wrecked halls, whispered truths.
Thanks for throwing a match into the dark -
I’m watching the edges catch fire.
This is such an enlightening, true article & beautifully and engagingly written.
Rebels, here in the land of rebellion still get shunned for rebelling.
What is rebellion even, for to the fish— breathing the cool crisp air is rebellion.
And in the land of rebellion not rebelling might be the rebellion.
Bam! Rebel versus dissenter. Excellent point to ponder.
Nice article there.
“nerve paneled corridors of imagination” perfect