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Bob Kaufman

African American beat poet (1925-1986) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 60

Robert Garnell Kaufman was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the Black American Rimbaud.

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