Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century
Selected Poems 1961-1985
Recommended by Hendrik Hertzberg in a recent issue of The New Yorker as the perfect replacement for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, Edward Sanders has been at the forefront of the American counterculture for more than fifty years. In the 1960s, he co-founded The Fugs, a legendary rock band, opened the Peace Eye bookstore, and began publishing Fuck You: A Journal of the Arts. He is also a classics scholar, pioneer in investigative poetics, inventor of musical instruments, recipient of an American Book Award, bestselling author of the Charles Manson exposé, The Family, and author of the ambitious, nine-volume project, America: A History in Verse—three volumes of which have now been published. Now back in print, this American Book Award-winning collection captures all the joy and tumult of the ’60s and is the companion volume to the simultaneously published Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: Selected Poems 1986-2008.
Edward Sanders is the bestselling author of the Charles Manson exposé, The Family, author of the recently published Poems for New Orleans, and a recipient of the American Book Award. He is also a founding member of the legendary rock group, The Fugs, a classics scholar, publisher, former bookseller, and pioneer in investigative poetics. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
