Tuli Kupferberg
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Tuli Kupferberg (born September 28, 1923) is an American counterculture poet, author, cartoonist, and publisher and co-founder of the band The Fugs.
A 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. 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". 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. 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. His most recent work is Teach Yourself Fucking (2000), a collection of cartoons.
