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A Cum Laude graduate of Brooklyn College in 1944 , Kupferberg founded the magazine ''Birth'' in 1958 . ''Birth'' only ran for three issues but published notable Beat Generation authors like Allen Ginsberg , Diane Di Prima , LeRoi Jones , Ted Joans amongst others in the Beat circle. Kupferberg reportedly appears in Ginsberg's poem '' Howl '' as the person "who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge this actually happened and walked away unknown and forgotten into the ghostly daze of Chinatown ". The incident in question actually occurred on the Manhattan Bridge, and is mentioned in the prose poem "Memorial Day 1971" written by Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman:

I asked Tuli Kupferberg once, "Did you really jump off of The Manhattan Bridge?" "Yeah," he said, "I really did." "How come?" I said. "I thought that I had lost the ability to love," Tuli said. "So, I figured I might as well be dead. So, I went one night to the top of The Manhattan Bridge, & after a few minutes, I jumped off." "That's amazing," I said. "Yeah," Tuli said, "but nothing happened. I landed in the water, & I wasn't dead. So I swam ashore, & went home, & took a bath, & went to bed. Nobody even noticed." (excerpt from "Memorial Day 1971" by Berrigan & Waldman)

Kupferberg self-published the book ''Beatniks; or, The War Against the Beats'' in 1961 .

In '' ( 1964 ), a collection of spoken word poetry, and '' Tuli & Friends '' ( 1989 ).

Perhaps his best known book is '' 1001 Ways To Beat The Draft '' ( 1966 ), a satirical Collage created with Robert Bashlow . In 1967 he wrote ''1001 Ways to Live Without Working'', which actually contains 1005 ways to live without working, and also a number of very interesting old ads, for instance referring to raffles for slaves and unfailing ways to cure cancer and obesity. His most recent work is '' Teach Yourself Fucking '' ( 2000 ), a collection of cartoons that was published by Autonomedia .

Kupferberg is active in New York anarchist circles.

He was featured in a cameo appearance in the Richard Pryor underground film Dynamite Chicken and more recently in the Jeffrey Lewis music video for ''Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror.'' {Link without Title}


SOME SONGS WRITTEN BY TULI KUPFERBERG

  • Super Girl

  • Seize the Day (Carpe Diem)

  • Nothing

  • The Ten Commandments (by God and Tuli)

  • Hallucination Horrors

  • CIA Man

  • My Bed Is Getting Crowded

  • Caca Rocka

  • Kill For Peace

  • Morning, Morning

  • The Garden Is Open

  • Dover Beach (to Mathew Arnold poem)

  • Life Is Strange

  • When The Mode Of The Music Changes

  • Bum's Song

  • Flower Children

  • Children Of The Dream

  • Defeated

  • Jackoff Blues

  • The Smoking Gun

  • Here Comes the Levellers

  • The Ballade of the League of Militant Agnostics

  • If You Want to Be President



SEE ALSO

  • Charters, Ann (ed.). ''The Portable Beat Reader''. Penguin Books. New York. 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk)



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Publications by Tuli Kupferberg:

Listen to the Mockingbird: Satiric Songs to Tunes You Know
"Kill for Peace" Being Yeah 10
1001 Ways to Beat the Draft
1001 Ways to Live Without Working
1001 Ways To Make Love. (Do Not Fail To Read This Little Book Carefully And Entirely Through. It Will Pay You. When You Have Perused It Give It To Your Suffering Neighbors). (O.O., Grove Press, 1969)
A LOOK AT THE WHITE PROBLEM (YEAH 7)
As They Were Too: a Collection of Celebrated People's Childhood Photos
As They Were. (Celebrated People's Pictures). N.Y./London, Links, (1973) g.
BIRTH 1
Birth No. 3, Book 1: Stimulants: an Exhibition
Birth Number 3, Book 2 Autumn 1960 - Stimulants, an Exhibition
BIRTH PRESS: List of Publications, Spring 1961
Caught in the Act: A Legal Vaudeville.
Cuddon's, No 11, July 1967
Don't Make Trouble
First Glance: Childhood Creations of the Famous
Fuck For Peace. Birth Press
In Media's Feces
Kill for Peace
Kill for Peace Again
Less Newspoems
No Deposit, No Return: An Evening of Pop Poetry With Tuli Kupferberg
O God!
Questionable Cartoons
SELECTED FRUITS & NUTS
Snow Job: Poems 1946-1959 )
SWING: WRITING BY CHILDREN
Teach Yourself Fucking
The Book of the Body
The Christine Keeler Colouring Book and Cautionary Tale
The Dark Night of the Soul in the Poetry Mines
THE GRACE & BEAUTY OF THE HUMAN FORM
THE MISSISSIPPI (A Study of the White Race)
THE RUB-YA-OUT OF OMORE DIEM
TRUE PROFESSIONS 1 & 2 (YEAH 8 & 9)
Why don't we do it in the bed ? - Warum tun wir es nicht im Bett?. Satirische Songs 1973 -1980. Englisch / Deutsch. A. d. Amerikanischen v. Udo Pasterny u. Daniel Gottschalk.
Yeah No. 6, June, 1963 "A Frigid Wife Ruined Me"
Yeah 7 a Look at the White Problem
Yeah, No. 8, May 1964.