{"id":191,"date":"2019-10-10T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:42:43","slug":"ed-sanders-the-fugs-and-fuck-you-press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/ed-sanders-the-fugs-and-fuck-you-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sanders, The Fugs, and Fuck You Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ed Sanders carried the Beat ethos into the 1960s. His various commitments\u2014to free expression, legalization of drugs, sexual freedom, and peaceful protest\u2014reflected the Beat emphasis on the individual but also the desire to recreate culture from the ground up. Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u2019s City Lights Books published Sanders\u2019s first book, Poem from Jail<\/em>, in 1963. Sanders wrote the book while serving a prison term for climbing aboard a nuclear submarine to protest militarism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A soft-spoken provocateur, Sanders operated the renowned Peace-Eye Bookstore in New York, published Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts<\/em> and related imprints, and co-founded the satirical, proto-punk band the Fugs. Sanders also had an advanced degree in Egyptology and wrote a scholarly treatise on hieroglyphics, which often feature in his underground publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ed Sanders
Poem from Jail<\/strong>, 1963
City Lights Books, San Francisco<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life<\/strong>, Feb. 17, 1967
\u201cThe Other Culture\u201d cover with Ed Sanders
Private collection<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts,no. 7, vol. 5<\/strong>, Sept. 1964
Cover by Robert LaVigne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
To Fuck Is To Love Again (Kyrie Eleison Kerista) or, The Situation In the West, Followed by a Holy Proposal<\/strong>, 1965
Fuck You Press, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ed Sanders
The Fugs Songbook!<\/strong>, 1965
Peace Eye Bookstore, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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East Village Other Electric Newspaper Hiroshima Day<\/strong>, 1966
LP
Cover by Walter Bowart. ESP-Disk, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legendary underground newspaper the East Village Other<\/em> released this sonic collage on August 6, 1966, which was both the marriage date of First Daughter Luci Baines Johnson and the 21st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Perceiving a bitter irony in this coincidence (President Johnson was reviled for escalating the conflict in Vietnam), EVO<\/em> assembled avant-garde figures from literature, jazz, rock, and art. Poet Allan Katzman described the album on its back cover: \u201cAll the news unfit to print is precipitated in the ear \u2026 TURN ON! TUNE IN! and delve into the depths of a culture\u2019s corrosion.\u201d The album features a radio news report of the wedding interspersed or overlaid with music by free-jazz saxophonist Marion Brown, chanting by Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, an instrumental piece called Noise<\/em> by the Velvet Underground (said to be their first recording), songs by members of the Fugs, a reading by novelist Ishmael Reed, and a conceptual piece by Warhol entitled Silence<\/em> (presumably a counterpart to Noise<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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William S. Burroughs
Roosevelt after Inauguration<\/strong>, 1964
Fuck You Press, New York
Cover by Allen Ginsberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed Sanders carried the Beat ethos into the 1960s. His various commitments\u2014to free expression, legalization of drugs, sexual freedom, and peaceful protest\u2014reflected the Beat emphasis on the individual but also the desire to recreate culture from the ground up. Lawrence Ferlinghetti\u2019s City Lights Books published Sanders\u2019s first book, Poem from Jail, in 1963. Sanders wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/beat-visions-and-the-counterculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}