{"id":42240,"date":"2020-10-12T12:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=42240"},"modified":"2020-10-13T10:34:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:34:35","slug":"bob-kaufman-tin-pan-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/10\/bob-kaufman-tin-pan-alley.html","title":{"rendered":"Bob Kaufman: ‘Tin Pan Alley’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bob Kaufman<\/a> <\/strong>(1925-1986)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

First published in the July 1961 issue of Swank, but having escaped from inclusion in The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman<\/em> <\/a>[edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell],<\/em> “Tin Pan Alley” has been reprinted at IMPART INK, an errant studio, in days of disaster and disease, two decades into the twenty-first century, in an edition of 61 copies, which are to be sold to benefit the poet’s son, Parker, on his 61st birthday in October MMXX. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Poem and Poster<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
No one has ever written a song about Coronary Thrombosis, \nEven though its blessings have been widely recognized . . .\nEven though it has saved many people from a lifetime of sorrow . . .\nEven though it has rescued many people from bottomless pits of Death . . .\nEven though it has provided a good life for millions of doctors, nurses, \nAmbulance drivers, morticians, stonecutters and countless others.\nYet, on ungrateful Tin Pan Alley\nNo one has ever written a song about Coronary Thrombosis.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Printed letterpress by Nick Whittington in San Francisco. Size: 10 x 14 inches. Purchase: $50.<\/a>
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“No one has ever written a song about Coronary Thrombosis, \/ Even though its blessings have been widely recognized . . . \/ Even though it has saved many people from a lifetime of sorrow . . . \/ Even though it has rescued many people from bottomless pits of Death . . . \/ Even though it has provided a good life for millions of doctors, nurses, \/ Ambulance drivers, morticians, stonecutters and countless others. \/  Yet, on ungrateful Tin Pan Alley \/ No one has ever written a song about Coronary Thrombosis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42247,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Bob_Kaufman.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aZi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42240","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=42240"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42267,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42240\/revisions\/42267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}