About the Author:
In the 1960s, Edward Sanders co-founded the groundbreaking rock band, The Fugs, opened the Peace Eye Bookstore, and appeared on the cover of Life magazine. He is a classics scholar, pioneer in investigative poetics, inventor of musical instruments, publisher of The Woodstock Journal, and author of many books, including the bestselling Charles Manson exposé The Family and the ambitious, multi-volume project, America: A History in Verse. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
Praise
“Sanders has been an astonishing and fertile presence in our cultural and political landscape. . . . But it is Sanders’ poetry, more than anything else he does, that pulls together all the varied strands of his interests to weave them into the body of one of our century’s most coherent poetics.” —Andrei Codrescu, National Public Radio
“Edward Sanders’ Poems For New Orleans is one of the great American epic poems, on par with Whitman and Ginsberg.” —Huffington Post
“One does not know midcentury American literature if one does not know Sanders.” —American Book Review
“In Sanders’ poetry we find . . . one of the clearest and most necessary bodies of work still being written today.” —Poetry Project Newsletter
“Like Allen Ginsberg, Sanders knows how to capture and upset an audience, and then deliver a message in the language of our time.” —Bloomsbury Review
“Sanders is a fascinating character, the personification of the counterculture movement.” —Publishers Weekly
“A legendary figure who is at once an eccentric scholar-poet in the tradition of Pound and Olson and an outrageous rocker who has also written the most important book on Charles Manson.” —Choice
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