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Ed Sanders

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born

August 17, 1939 in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Arts & Photography

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Ed Sanders is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author and publisher. He has been called a bridge between the Beat and Hippie generations.

Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He dropped out of Missouri University in 1958 and hitchhiked to New York City’s Greenwich Village. He wrote his first major poem, "Poem from Jail," on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting against nuclear proliferation in 1961.

In 1962, he founded the avant-garde journal, Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts. Sanders opened the Peace Eye Bookstore (147 Avenue A in what was then the Lower East Side), which became a gathering place for bohemians and radicals.

Sanders graduated from New York University in 1964, with a degree...more

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Books by Ed Sanders

Average rating: 3.94 · 753 ratings · 84 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Family 3.82 avg rating — 489 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Tales of Beatnik Glory 4.09 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	My rating:
	1968 4.37 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side 4.12 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	America: A History in Verse, Vol 3: 1962-1970 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsberg: A Narrative Poem 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	My rating:
	America: A History in Verse, Vol 1: 1900-1939 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems 1961-85 (Selected Works 2) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Fame & Love in New York 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Poem from Jail 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1963	My rating: