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Thursday April 4:
WHERE: Cabell Library,
Special Collections and Archives Department of the
WHEN:
1-3 p.m.
WHAT:
Reading and book signing
Friday April 5:
WHERE: Commons Theater
WHEN:
1-4 p.m.
WHAT:
Reading and a movie about Allen Ginsberg
Media:
NPR, All things considered.  (segment)
(entire show)
from March 21, 2001 show
Real
Player is required.
Collection of articles from Sanders
Journal
from Woodstock
What is a FUG anyway?
History of the FUGS
More about Ed
Sanders:
Ed Sander's Investigative Poetry
PDF
(29.1kb)
DOC
(52.5kb)
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Biography
Edward Sanders was born in Kansas City,
Missouri in 1939, and attended Blue Springs High School,
a few miles from Harry Truman's house. After graduating
from New York University in 1964 with a degree in
Classics, he founded the legendary Peace Eye Book
Store in New York's Lower East Side and the folk rock
group the Fugs. The Fugs created eleven albums during
their career, a number of which are still in print.
Sanders was active in the Social Democratic
wing of the counterculture of the 1960s and '70s and
published a number of influential magazines and manifestoes.
For the last eighteen years he has been
active in the environmental, peace, economic justice
and consumer movements in Woodstock, New York, where
he lives, during which time he has written books of
verse, poetics, novels, collections of short stories
and works of nonfiction.
His collected poems, 1961-1985, Thirsting
for Peace in a Raging Century, won an American Book
Award in 1988. The updated edition of The Family,
his study of the Manson group, was published in 1990.
Tales of Beatnik Glory, Volumes I and II (1990) is
being made into a feature-length film.
His musical drama Cassandra, based on
texts from Euripides, Aeschylus, Apollodorus and Homer,
had its premiere performances in 1992. Sanders' Songs
in Ancient Greek (1992) is available on compact disk.
He is at work on Volume III of Tales
of Beatnik Glory; Tuxedo by Water, a true crime story;
and a book of poetics, Investigative Poetry and Beyond.
His most recent books of poetry from Black Sparrow
are Hymn to the Rebel Cafe (1993), Chekhov (1995)
1968: A History in Verse (1997) and America: A History
in Verse, Volume 1, 1900-1939 (2000).
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