Tuli Kupferberg

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Tuli Kupferberg
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Born September 28, 1923 (1923-09-28) (age 84)
Flag of the United States New York City
Education Brooklyn College
Known for 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft
The Fugs

Tuli Kupferberg (born September 28, 1923) is an American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, pacifist anarchist, publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs.

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A cum laude graduate of Brooklyn College in 1944, Kupferberg founded the magazine Birth in 1958[1]. 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[2], 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."

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

In 1964, Kupferberg formed the satirical rock group The Fugs with poet Ed Sanders.[3] Kupferberg took their name from Norman Mailer's substitute for the word "fuck" in his novel The Naked and the Dead. He was one of the band's singers and wrote many of their songs. He also released two solo albums: No Deposit, No Return (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 1961 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 pacifist 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.[4] His biweekly T.V. show Revolting News airs on Manhattan Neighborhood Network's channel 56, alternate Mondays at 10 P.M.and may be accessed by MNNs internet stream in real time http:// www.mnn.org. His YouTube channel is called "tulifuli."

[edit] Works

[edit] Published works

  • Beating (1959)
  • Children's Writings (1959)
  • Children as Authors: A Big Bibliography (1959, with Sylvia Topp)
  • Snow Job: Poems 1946-1959 (1959)
  • Selected Fruits & Nuts (1959)
  • Stimulants, An Exhibition (1960)
  • 1001 Ways to Live Without Working (1961)
  • The Grace & Beauty of the Human Form (1961)
  • 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Beatniks : or, The War Against the Beats (1961)
  • Sex and War (1962)
  • The Mississippi (A Study of the White Race) (1962)
  • The Rub-Ya-Out of Omore Diem (1962)
  • The Christine Keeler Colouring Book & Cautionary Tale (1963)
  • Kill for Peace (1965)
  • Caught in the Act: a Legal Vaudeville (1966)
  • The Book of the Body (with Judith Wehlau, 1966)
  • I Say to Masturbate is Human, to Fuck Divine (1966)
  • 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft (with Robert Bashlow, 1967)
  • Fuck Nam : a morality play (1967)
  • 1001 Ways to Make Love (1969)
  • Newspoems (1971)
  • Listen to the Mockingbird; satiric songs to tunes you know (1973)
  • As They Were (with Sylvia Topp, 1973)
  • Universal Housewife (1975)
  • First Glance (with Sylvia Topp, 1978)
  • As They Were Too (with Sylvia Topp, 1979)
  • O God! (1980)
  • The Crazy Paper (1980)
  • Less Newspoems (1981)
  • Questionable Cartoons (1981)
  • True Professions (1981)
  • Why Don't We Do It in the Bed? (1982)
  • Was It Good For You Too? (1983)
  • After the Balls Are Ova (1984)
  • In Media's Feces (1986)
  • Kill For Peace, Again (1987)
  • Reaganation (1987)
  • The Tuli Kupferberg Instant Lottery Broadside (1988)
  • The Dark Night of the Soul in the Poetry Mines (1988)
  • Signed By the Artist (1990)
  • Don't Make Trouble (1991)
  • My Prick is Bigger Than Yours (1992)
  • The Land that God Remembered (1992)
  • The Old Fucks at Home (1992)
  • You Know Helen : Maybe Chimps Know a Lot More Than We Think (1994)
  • Hey Ann! : What's The Diff Between Religion & Patriotism? (with Dave Jordan, 1994)
  • Whitman said : "In order to have great art you have to have great audiences!"(1994)
  • When I Hear the Word 'Culture' I Reach for My Gun (1994)
  • I Hate Poems About Poems About Poems (1994)
  • Great Moments in the History of Sport : No. 4, The Spartans Invent Football (1994)
  • Teach Yourself Fucking (2000)
  • Paris I Have Never Seen' (2001)

[edit] Songs

  • 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 Ballad of the League of Militant Agnostics
  • If You Want to Be President

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sisario, Ben. "Rock 'n' Roll Dissidents, Fearless for 4 Decades", New York Times, 2003-07-15. Retrieved on 2007-10-08. 
  2. ^ Holden, Stephen. "POP/JAZZ; The Fugs Look Back to 1967's 'Summer of Love'", New York Times, 1987-08-21. Retrieved on 2007-10-08. ". . . Tuli Kupferberg, the poet and cartoonist whom Mr. Ginsberg remembered in Howl as the person who jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived. (Mr. Ginsberg said the other day that the incident actually took place on the Manhattan Bridge in 1945.)" 
  3. ^ Strausbaugh, John. "The Old Fug", New York Press, 2000-09-20. Retrieved on 2007-10-08. 
  4. ^ Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror (video). YouTube (2007-01-06). Retrieved on 2007-03-15.

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NAME Kupferberg, Tuli
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SHORT DESCRIPTION American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician.
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City, New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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