And when I die, I won't stay dead
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Date: January 01, 2015 to February 01, 2015
Dates Note: 2015
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Portugal
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United States
Place of Origin: United States, Portugal
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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Poetry by Bob Kaufman read by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Suzanne Cockerel, Roscoe Lee Browne.
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Auteur, Author: Film & Literature 2016Description:
Perhaps no American poet has been so reactive to, and beaten by, his times as Bob Kaufman (1925–1986). In North Beach, among the Beats, he was a street poet in the oral tradition, always on the outside; in Paris, he was the Black American Rimbaud. Even his FBI file credited him as a “smooth talker.” Like his hero, Charlie Parker, he lived in “that jazz corner of life,” and Billy Woodberry organizes his beautiful, soulful, picture-filled film on Kaufman in clear riffs and natural strains as they emerge from the telling of an uncompromising life of provocation and poetry.
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