{"id":1787,"date":"2010-07-16T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/07\/tuli_kupferberg_rip\/"},"modified":"2010-07-16T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T16:57:07","slug":"tuli_kupferberg_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/07\/tuli_kupferberg_rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Tuli Kupferberg, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownexpress.com\/de_377\/tulikupferberg.html\">Gone.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paul-krassner\/remembering-tuli_b_646165.html\">But not forgotten.<\/a> There will be a funeral service open to the public on Saturday, July 17th, 11:45 a.m.-3 p.m, at <a href=\"http:\/\/stmarksbowery.org\/history-test.html\">St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery<\/a>, 131 E.10th St., in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Klx421BFdeY&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nThis stanza from &#8220;Memorial Day 1971,&#8221; a long prose poem by Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/08\/rearview_mirror.html\">worth recalling<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I asked Tuli Kupferberg once, &#8220;Did you really jump off of The Manhattan Bridge?&#8221; &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I really did.&#8221; &#8220;How come?&#8221; I said. &#8220;I thought that I had lost the ability to love,&#8221; Tuli said. &#8220;So, I figured I might as well be dead. So, I went one night to the top of The Manhattan Bridge, &#038; after a few minutes, I jumped off.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Tuli said, &#8220;but nothing happened. I landed in the water, &#038; I wasn&#8217;t dead. So I swam ashore, &#038; went home, &#038; took a bath, &#038; went to bed. Nobody even noticed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone. But not forgotten. There will be a funeral service open to the public on Saturday, July 17th, 11:45 a.m.-3 p.m, at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 E.10th St., in Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}