Bob Kaufman (April 18, 1925 - January 12, 1986), born Robert Garnell Kaufman in New Orleans, Louisiana, was an American Beat poet and surrealist inspired by jazz music. In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the "American Rimbaud." Wikipedia
Bob Kaufmans O-Jazz-O Copyright by Dan Schneider, 7/3/03 2 of the great poetic fraud movements of the last century were those of Surrealism & Jazz poetry. www.cosmoetica.com/TOP59-DES56.htm
...Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) About Bob Kaufman On "Crootey Songo" Online Poems External Links Prepared and Compiled by Cary Nelson Return to Modern ... www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/kaufman/kaufman.htm
Kaufman was so dedicated to the spontaneous, oral tradition of poetry that he sometimes would not write his work down, and only did so at the encouragement of his wife. www.beatmuseum.org/kaufman/bobkaufman.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Bob Kaufman. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kaufman
Photo of Bob Kaufman Robert E. Johnson. Online source http://www.npg.si.edu/img2/rebels/kaufman.jpg www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/kaufman/about.htm
Bob Kaufman was a rambling man of the world and eternal social outsider who could recite T. S. Eliot and Garcia Lorca by heart and who created his own spontaneous surrealist verse. xcp.bfn.org/peddito1.html
Eileen Kaufman: Biography Very little is known about Eileen Kaufman before she joined the Beat scene in San Francisco. www.womenofthebeat.org/EileenKaufman/EileenKaufman.htm
