John F. Kennedy, Kaufman took a Buddhist vow of silence that lasted until the end of the Vietnam War in 1973. He broke his silence by reciting his poem "All Those Ships that Never Sailed," the first lines of which are: All those ships that never sailed The ones with their seacocks open That were scuttled in their stalls... Today I bring them back Huge and intransitory And let them sail Forever According to George Fragopoulis, in his article "Singing the Silent Songs":"It is generative to consider Kaufman's silence as a kind of poetic project in and of itself, a gesture meant to interrogate the lyric's possibilities of reimagining our relationships with the world. The history of modern poetry cannot be told without including those poets (Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Robert Duncan, George Oppen) who renounced poetry." (p. 152). Personal life In 1944, Kaufman married Ida Berrocal. They had one daughter, Antoinette Victoria Marie (Nagle), born in New York City in 1945 (died 2008). He married Eileen Singe (1922–2015) in 1958; they had one child, Parker, named for Charlie Parker. He died aged 60 in 1986 from emphysema and cirrhosis in San Francisco. Bibliography Abomunist Manifesto (broadside, City Lights, 1958). In 2013 Temática Editores Generales in Lima published Manifiesto Abomunista, a bilingual Spanish-English version.(All Libraries) Second April (broadside, City Lights, 1958)(All Libraries) Does the Secret Mind Whisper? (broadside, City Lights, 1959)(All Libraries) Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness (New Directions, 1965)(All Libraries) Golden Sardine (City Lights, 1967)(All Libraries) The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956–1978 (New Directions, 1981)(All Libraries) Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman (Coffee House Press, 1996)(All Libraries) Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, City Lights Publishers, 2019. References Further reading Abbott, Steve. "Hidden Master of the Beats." Poetry Flash (February 1986). Anderson, TJ III. "Body and Soul: Bob Kaufman's Golden Sardine." African American Review (Summer 2000). Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. Penguin Books. New York. 1992. (hc); (pbk) Cherkovski, Neeli. Elegy for Bob Kaufman. San Francisco, CA: Sun Dog Press (1996). Cherkovski, Neeli. Whitman's Wild Children. Venice, CA: Lapis (1988). Christian, Barbara. "Whatever Happened to Bob Kaufman?" Black World 21 (September 1972). Clay, Mel. Jazz Jail and God: Impressionistic Biography of Bob Kaufman. San Francisco, CA: Androgyne Books (1987). Damon, Maha. "'Unmeaning Jargon'/Uncanonized Beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet", South Atlantic Quarterly 87.4 (Fall 1988). Foye, Raymond. "Bob Kaufman, A Proven Glory", The Poetry Project Newsletter (March 1986). Kaufman,