Bob Kaufman, Devorah Major, Neeli Cherkovski
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Used to be you couldn't throw a rock in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco without hitting someone who had a Bob Kaufman story. Those days may be gone but Kaufman's legacy as arguably the one true genius of Beat poetics gets a shot in the arm with this long overdue collection.
Improvisatory, visionary, anarchistic; anguished, defiant, and funny as hell, Kaufman's poetry is a Black American surrealist cry against the constraints of... (read more)
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