Alan Kaufman discusses upcoming memoir about self-recovery | Mills College

Drunken Angel is the story of a rebel poet's climb from drunken hell to reclaim the gift he betrayed and to find the daughter he abandoned. Kaufman recounts with unvarnished honesty the story of alcoholism that took him to the brink of death, the PTSD that drove him to the edge of madness, and the love that brought him back.

Alan Kaufman's descent takes us from the street gangs of the Bronx to the intellectual centers of Manhattan, from the battlefields of Gaza and the West Bank to the punk rock nights of the East Village, the poetry stages of Europe, and finally, to San Francisco.

Drunken Angel is a testament to the power of recovery from alcoholism to rescue forfeited dreams and of love to renew the human spirit.
The book will be available in bookstores everywhere November 1, 2011.

Alan Kaufman is an American novelist, memoirist and poet who was instrumental in the development of the Spoken Word movement in literature and in the rise of alternative Jewish culture. Kaufman is the editor of the bestselling The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and co-editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Literature, alongside Barney Rosset and Neil Ortenberg. His other books include The Outlaw Bible of American Essays and The New Generation: Fiction For Our Time From America's Writing Programs. He has written for The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other publications. A lay ordained Zen practitioner and twenty years clean and sober, he is Dean of The Free University of San Francisco, which the New York Times recently compared to the Freedom Schools of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Filmed and edited by Bianca Butler. Contributed by Lauren Soldano.

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[milesdigby]

That was really well produced. I just wish you had a longer talk with the author.

Thanks for the video. Can't wait for his new book. I will see him in Corte Madera.