Bob Kaufman
Bob Kaufman
Bob Kaufman, born Robert Garnell Kaufman, 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 "black American Rimbaud."...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 April 1925
eye
Would You Wear My Eyes?
beautiful wind hair
Sometimes when the wind is blowing in my hair, I cry because its coolness is too beautiful
ambition want forgotten
I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten,
folks somewhere sure
I'm sure there are folks out there somewhere who are working on that now,