Flower Child Noir by Deborah Kaufman
$20.99
“These poems take us inside the bright mind of an almost grown girl beholding a world gone wild – San Francisco in the 60’s. Kaufman creates a wonderful blend of memory and insight as she captures the joys and dangers of what she beheld, witnessed, sampled, and endured.”
–Susan Griffin, essayist, poet, playwright, radical feminist philosopher
“People often think that they know what San Francisco has been: Gold Rush, earthquake, beat poets, hippies, gay rights and tech invasion. I suppose it’s not a bad set of bullet points, but Kaufman’s poems go deeper, and conjure a city that I knew growing up: the delicate connections, the neighborhood characters, the creepy undertones and the joyful vibrations.”
–Kim Shuck, 7th San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita
“Confident and whole, Kaufman’s first book doesn’t fall prey to easy nostalgia – its magnetism lies in the way it complicates the Baby Boomer coming of age story. Deeply aware of history, Kaufman embraces an unflinching truth about her experiences and the subtexts of these experiences.”
–Brian Tierney, author of Rise and Float (Milkweed Press), Winner of the 2021 Jake Adam York Prize
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Flower Child Noir
by Deborah Kaufman
$20.99, Full-length, paper
979-8-88838-129-8
2023
FLOWER CHILD NOIR is a hybrid poetry memoir, a message in a bottle that speaks of childhood, traumatic histories, Jewish identities, sexual awakening, and San Francisco’s legendary counter-culture. Kaufman digs into class, race and gender with honesty and clarity while painting an intimate portrait of growing up at a time when both her family and the cultural order were unraveling.
Deborah Kaufman was born and raised in San Francisco. She was founding Director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival before becoming an award-winning documentary filmmaker. This is her first collection of poetry.
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