Comments on: Bob Kaufman’s Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness

By: Jazzman John Clarke

Jazzman John Clarke — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 20:46:00 +0000

I have been happily obsessed with the poetry of Bob Kaufman for some years now.He seemed to hold the key to so many diverse facets of poetry that I strongly relate to,jazz poetry & surrealist poetry to name but two.I had that first Collection of Bob’s in my hand but somehow it slipped thru my fingers.Your tremendous selection from the book put it at the top of my list of ‘must have’ poetry books.I quote him in my Collection: ‘Ghost On The Road’(tall-lighthouse,2006/2008) : “Every time I open my big mouth I put my soul into it.” Kaufman specifically wrote his jazz poems for jazz musicians to improvise to,and in my opinion he stands as the supreme jazz poet,despite the presence of the illustrious Langston Hughes.

By: Uut Poetry » Solitude Crowded With Loneliness

Uut Poetry » Solitude Crowded With Loneliness — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 03:42:37 +0000

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By: Maelle Pintori

Maelle Pintori — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:43:00 +0000

Brooke, I really like how you emphasize how the Beats “contain” the America they reject, and that is, write about it not only when they write about it but also when they write about them. That’s what makes the main distinction, for me, between dharma bums and dharma revolutionaries like Gary Snyder. Snyder constructs outside the post industrial society he resents, barely mentioning it in his poems. Yet, he does have a plan for America, unlike the other Beats authors (except Di Prima and surely others) who would go abroad in order the escape the established spatialization of the time.
Anyway, thank you for expressing so well thoughts I have had for a while without managing to have a real grasp on it.

By: A.M. Harper

A.M. Harper — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Wonderful!