American Beat poet, author, cartoonist and musician Tuli Kupferberg died this week at the age of 86. Although Kupferberg wasn’t a household name, his band, The Fugs, ran in the same circles as The Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol and Frank Zappa and the “Mothers of Invention.”

New York Times staff reporter Ben Sisario, discusses Kupferberg’s uncompromising, and idiosyncratic vision, and the legacy his work leaves behind.