“You have to think of different arrays of sequencing information … You have to make an apt choice, or an artistic choice, or an aesthetic choice about what you put in—and what you leave out. On January 1, 1966, police raided Peace Eye Bookstore[3] and charged Sanders with obscenity, charges he fended off with the aid of the ACLU. But as a poet, he captured the violent rhythms and the profound horror of the murders better than anyone who … In his “Hymn to Glyphs,” which he wrote for an exhibit of his work in Woodstock in December 2019, Sanders explained that “A Glyph has the power to shake the spirit. If he wanted to, he could talk about the past all day and all night, for days on end and not deplete his vast storehouse of memories and recollections. Edward Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author, publisher and longtime member of the band the Fugs. William Blake would cheer.

In 1998 Sanders began work on America, A History in Verse, which has been published in three volumes, from 1999 to 2004. Edward Sanders (born August 17, 1939) is an American poet, singer, social activist, environmentalist, author, publisher and longtime member of the band the Fugs.

Of course, sometimes they're cruel on purpose—like 'The Iliad,' a saga of good old queer-bashing with a Greek-to-me intro.

“A lot of what I write is poetry.”, On August 17, 2020 he will celebrate his 81st birthday.

Strike that last sentence. Sanders. Any account of the Manson murders, including Bugliosi’s, owes a debt to one of the earliest books on the case: The Family (1971), by Ed Sanders, an erstwhile poet, folksinger, and activist. Sanders. “I have too many glyphs,” he tells me.

While he had made doodles and drawings for most of his adult life, he didn’t start to make glyphs until he found himself in Florence, Italy in 2008.

It emblazons shapes, lines, colors, space and words into an intense zone of enhanced visualization.” Sanders’ glyphs, which make dramatic use of color and line, texts and drawings, may be one of his most valuable contributions to American and world culture. [1] Sanders is considered to have been active and "present at the counterculture's creation."[2].
Sanders adds, “We’ve got to obliterate racism from public discourse.” He knows that Trump and his followers are very bad news, but he also knows that bad news has been at the core of the American story from the very beginnings of the nation that emerged from a revolution and soon morphed into an empire. Jonah Raskin is the author of For The Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman and American Scream: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and the Making of the Beat Generation.

He has been married to Miriam R. Sanders since 1967. Surely, it’s a good thing that he declines to give interviews to the dozens of filmmakers and biographers who want him to talk about the past.

Especially in investigative poetry, it’s a mission.”.

Edward Sanders is still very much alive and well and determined to survive COVID-19 by wearing a mask and gloves whenever he goes out, which is rare these days. Clearly, the glyphs have prompted Sanders to summon his talents as artist and as writer and to speak to a world on fire and in upheaval. [6], In 1969, Sanders recorded and released his first solo album for Reprise Records, Sanders' Truck Stop.