Bob Kaufman
(1925–1986)
(Full name Bob Garnell Kaufman) American poet.
Known in Europe as “The Black American Rimbaud” and in the United States as “The Original Be-Bop Man,...
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Bob Kaufman, known in France as the "American Rimbaud," is one of the original Beat poets of the late 1950s. Rightfully regarded as one of the most influential black poets of his era, he was one of th...
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Many readers view Bob Kaufman as the unsung patriarch of the Beat poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Although somewhat neglected critically in America, his work is not unknown and appears in more...
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Bob Kaufman
Bob (Garnell) Kaufman