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This long, biographic poem deals with Sanders' music group, the Fugs, and the political events of 1968, detailing among others the ravages of the Viet Nam war, James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, the Yippies, the CIA, J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the Chicago Seven. There are descriptions of the assasinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King as well as small black and white scanned, photographic, documentary images, and line drawings of hierogyphics and fragments of calligraphic texts scattered among the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The main poem in this book deals with the Pharohs and Egypt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This portrait of Allen Ginsberg by Ferlinghetti is painted on a newspaper poem by Edward Sanders that deals with Ginsberg's life in 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1940 - 1961 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (current copy) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (also held by the Sackner Archive). In these copies, images are printed on thr front and back covers. A dust jacket was not issued, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1940 - 1961 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (current copy). In these copies, images are printed on the front and back covers. A dust jacket was not issued, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1940 - 1961 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (current copy). In these copies, images are printed on the front and back covers. A dust jacket was not issued, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1900 - 1939 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (current copy) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1900 - 1939 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (current copy). The latter has the image of the dust jacket printed on its cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sanders has written a clear history of the United States from 1900 - 1939 in blank verse interposed with a slight amount of visual poetics.There are 300 copies of the hard cover edition and an unspecified number of soft cover copies. Of these 300 copies, 125 were numbered and signed by Sanders (also held by Sackner Archive) and 26 copies in boards by Earle Gray were lettered and signed by Sanders (current copy). The latter has the image of the dust jacket printed on its cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds the complete run of all 13 numbered issues of this periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the dust jacket cover: "An informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side."Amazon.com: Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs--formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg)--as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labelsPrague Post: "This inspiring, enlightening book is a compendium of 1960s American culture enlivened by hilarious stories, unbelievable adventures and, surprisingly, more than a tab of humility"¦It is rare that a memoir of the 1960s...

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According to Sanders, "Investigative Poetry" signifies a form of historical writing. "Investigative poesy is freed from capitalism, churchism, and other totalitatianisms; free from racism, free from napalm-dropping military police states --- a poetry adequate to discharge from its verse-grids the undefiled high energy purely-distilled verse-frags, using every bardic skill and meter and method of the last 5 or 6 generations, in order to describe every aspect (no more secret governments!) of the historical present, while aiding the future, even placing bard-babble once again into a role as the shaper for the future." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.