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Tales of Beatnik Glory

Ed Sanders
Thunder’s Mouth Press / Avalon
December 2004
ISBN: 0810955814

Ed Sanders’s mock-heroic (and heroic) autobiographical odyssey Tales Of Beatnik Glory follows poet, filmmaker, and activist Sam Thomas, editor of the magazine Dope, Fucking, and Social Change, and a variegated cast of castoffs, dropouts, peaceniks, freakniks, and mendicant filthniks, from Kansas through the beatnik and hippie countercultures of New York City’s Lower East Side and Greenwich Village.

From the Freedom Rides and confrontations with the Alabama Klan to the “hate-dappled” Summer of Love, Tales Of Beatnik Glory is the epic of America in the sixties, in a language of droll invention and stoned mythopoesis, from a man who once dared to exorcise the Pentagon.

This revised edition adds two new volumes and includes twenty-five never-before-published stories.

Author Bio

Ed Sanders is a poet, political activist, and founding member of the folk-rock pranksters the Fugs. He is the author of many books including The Family, the verse biographers Chekhov and The Poetry and Life of Allen Ginsburg, and the three volumes of verse history, America: A History in Verse. His Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems, 1961–1985 won the American Book Award in 1988. He lives in Woodstock, New York.