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Beat Literature & History > Bob Kaufman

Cranial Guitar Bob Kaufman At the forefront of the Beat movement, Kaufman was active (except for a decade long self-imposed interval of silence) on the poetry scenes of San Francisco’s North Beach and New York’s Lower East Side and Village from the 1950s through the 1980s... The Ancient Rain Poems, 1956-1978 Bob Kaufman A collection of early rap poetry from "the black American Rimbaud." Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness Bob Kaufman Poems and prose. Contains odes to Charles Mingus, Hart Crane, Albert Camus, and other alienated outsiders.