Tuli Kupferberg obituary

Key figure in the US 1960s countercultureTuli Kupferberg, who has died aged 86 after a long illness, was a key figure in the US countercultural campaign of the 1960s. As a publisher, poet, pacifist, singer and songwriter, he used his talents for writing and humour to attack the perceived repressions of his nation and its escalating military activities in south-east Asia.As part of that anti-war strategy, Kupferberg combined Beat writing sensibilities, folk whimsy and electric rock'n'roll in the ...

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