Elegy for Bob Kaufman
Neeli Cherkovski is a longtime contributor to the West Coast  literary scene. Emerging from the Los Angeles underground  of the  Sixties, Cherkovski is an applauded poet, critic and literary  biographer. He has written ten books of poetry, including  FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD, the  award-winning LEANING AGAINST TIME, ELEGY FOR  BOB KAUFMAN, and Animal; two acclaimed biographies,  Bukowski: A Life and  Ferlinghetti: A Biography; his book Whitman's Wild Children  (a collection of critical memoirs) has become an  underground  classic. In the late 1960s Cherkovski co-edited the poetry  anthology Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns with  Charles  Bukowski. Since 1975, Neeli has lived and worked in San  Francisco. For ten years he was Writer-in-Residence at New  College of  California, where he taught literature and philosophy.