Poetry by Edward Sanders, with an introduction by Joanne Kyger
September 1, 2009 6 x 9 256 pages 978-1-56689-234-6
The major work from a legend of Beat poetry, Yippee politics, and rock n roll.
Lets Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War picks up where the simultaneously reissued, American Book Award-winning collection, Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century, left off and spans more than two decades. In this collection, Edward Sanders animates the whole of human historybreathing new life into ancient stories, celebrating artists and activists, telling tales of bohemian escapades, eulogizing friends and politicians, and lamenting the follies that have led us to war time and again. With exuberant pragmatism and visionary scholarship, Sanders continues to mark the way forward for poets and peacemakers, rock n rollers, and revolutionaries.
About the Author
In the 1960s, Edward Sanders co-founded the groundbreaking rock band, The Fugs, opened the Peace Eye Bookstore, and appeared on the cover of Life magazine. He is a classics scholar, pioneer in investigative poetics, inventor of musical instruments, publisher of the Woodstock Journal, and author of many books, including the bestselling Charles Manson expos The Family and the ambitious, multi-volume project, America: A History in Verse. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
Joanne Kyger has taught at the New College of California in San Francisco and at the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. She has published more than twenty books, including the recent As Ever: Selected Poems, and is a recipient of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award in poetry.