New York, NY: New Directions Books, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. "There is deep excitement in the originality and power of Bob Kaufman's poems. Perhaps the first to "discover" this young American Negro writer was Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who published him in two City Lights broadsides (San Francisco, 1959 and 1960). Now Kaufman has assembled the work of ten years in Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, a collection that will have tremendous impact..... More