Bob Kaufman

Brilliant blasts of verse from a late beat poet of the past

[Bob Kaufman @bobkaufman]

Every known surviving poem by @bobkaufman including 30 previously uncollected. Foreword by devorah major, reminiscences by editors Raymond Foye and Neeli Cherkovski, and a biographical timeline... order ahead from @CityLightsBooks https://t.co/VbvdoTKypk

[Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez @FitzTheReporter]

Historic Fisherman’s Wharf arcade asking public for donations https://t.co/BcTj8n6pVd

[Bob Kaufman @bobkaufman]

I inhaled.

[mikl em @mikl_em]

Cactus? Buttons? You don't think @bobkaufman actually.... ohhhhhh.... (from the amazing Collected Bob Kaufman (published 2019 by @CityLightsBooks )

[Mack, yes, That Mack @that_mc]

#BikesToBooks another @bobkaufman poem is actually about Harwood Alley, the street which today bears his name: https://t.co/0ggAEdoQ7m

[Mack, yes, That Mack @that_mc]

#BikesToBooks @bobkaufman took a vow of silence that lasted from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the end of the end of the Vietnam War in 1973. He broke his silence by reciting his poem "All Those Ships that Never Sailed" https://t.co/1Yllh5LjLu

[Bob Kaufman @bobkaufman]

He flopped. She flopped. We ALL flopped. A bit more flopping in this world, wouldn’t hurt a thing! (The verb “to flop”)) #BikesToBooks

[Jim Nelson @_jimnelson_]

My fav story about Hammett and San Francisco regards Fritz Leiber, who flopped in the TL & mapped the locations in The Maltese Falcon up & down Geary Street. Don Herron has led legendary tours on Dash, Leiber & SF. I wrote about it here: https://t.co/FJBHZ43AX8 #BikesToBooks

[John Clark @johnnyglucose]

City Lights Journal (1966) @CityLightsBooks @LewWelch #brautigan @Ginsbergpoem @LawrenceFerlin1 @bobkaufman @peterorlovsky who else?

[Bob Kaufman @bobkaufman]

Oh HEY. Happening Today. Everywhere via @twitter. Sparking up in SF in an hour. #BikesToBooks is a virtual tour of SFs literary alleys....

[mikl em @mikl_em]

The Yesterdays of #BikesToBooks: celebrating #SanFrancisco literary greats like #KennethRexroth @bobkaufman and @DashiellHammett! I was thrilled to be part of the 2013 map launch that @enkohl & @burritojustice put together... (1 of 2)
https://t.co/Konge2nNiq

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

You have no idea how well Vesuvio has taken care of us and all visitors to our block over the years, or perhaps you do.

Every dollar counts. Support the wonderful staff at Vesuvio!! https://t.co/9iHTX5wwTV

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

We feel like we've been doing so much to keep the momentum moving that we have barely rested, even working from home!

That said, we are so grateful for this community of booksellers we call family. Had a conference call yesterday with the entire staff and it was pretty great. 💖

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

The poet lives in the
midst of death
and seeks the mystery of
life, a stone reality in the
realm of symbols, fantasy, and
metaphor, for reasons
that are his own what is real
is the pit of bones he comes
from,
a fish with frog’s
eyes
creation is perfect.

––Bob Kaufman

[Poets House @poetshouse]

All those
floodlight monumental
conceptions, along the road, laughing in wounded
air,
crying to paint me blue, in the california
afternoon

In memoriam Bob Kaufman
@CityLightsBooks
https://t.co/AteCFFmfHV

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

“When I die, / I won’t stay / Dead.” https://t.co/CZpScDXyMs

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

"Not many collected works deserve sustained place in the hands of readers and on the shelves of bookstore poetry sections. This is one of them.”

Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman on @PublishersWkly’s best books of 2019 staff picks. https://t.co/SannimqJZy

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

Bob Kaufman in North Beach. Photos by Jeffrey Blankfort.

[AllenGinsbergEstate (find us on bluesky) @Ginsbergpoem]

Howl in the bookfair, Howl in the classroom, Gysin-Burroughs Dreamachine, Gregory Corso and Bob Kaufman - - and more - Friday's Weekly Round-Up on the Allen Ginsberg Project - https://t.co/AyBhMc1EP1

[cintra wilson @xintra]

@Beatgrrrl "ABOMUNISTS do not write for money; they write the money itself. "

[Beatgrrrl @Beatgrrrl]

Download & read:
Abomunist Manifesto
by Bob Kaufman https://t.co/b5mdWTMfrk
#BeatGen #beatgeneration

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

Bob (far right) & Eileen Kaufman looking at 1st printing of Beatitude #1. Bill Margolis at left. 1959, photo by Fortunato Clementi.

Several of Bob’s “lost” poems published in Beatitude appear in Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman that we just published! https://t.co/CeopWjue1r

[Zanja @arteenlazanja]

GREAT MAIL DAY!
Collected poems of Bob Kaufman
Thank You @CityLightsBooks, Tate Swindell, Neeli Cherkovski & Raymond Foye.
and in Kaufman’s prophetic words

When I die,
I won’t stay
Dead.