Ed Sanders and Fuck You Press
“I’ll print anything”
Fuck You was dedicated to free expression, and especially defying the taboos around sex and drugs, advocating free sex and the use of psychedelics long before those were picked up by the more widespread countercultural movements of the late Sixties. Sanders and his collaborators served as a bridge between the Beat generation of the Fifties and the later counterculture, and helped define many of the differences between the two--the latter building on the breakthroughs initiated by the former.
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Fuck You Press Books
Auden, W.H. THE PLATONIC BLOW. 1965.
Berge, Carol. THE VANCOUVER REPORT. 4to. 1964
Burroughs, William S. HEALTH BULLETIN: APO-33. A METABOLIC REGULATOR. 1965. Fewer than 20 copies of this publication are extant; the rest were destroyed.
[Burroughs, William S.] "Willie Lee". Roosevelt After Inauguration. NY: Fuck You/ Press, 1964. First edition. Mimeographed wrps., stapled. Cover vignettes by Allen Ginsberg. The routine (created by Burroughs and Kell Elvins while students at Harvard) was originally intended for inclusion in "The Yage Letters", but was censored by the English printers; it was subsequently printed in #9 of Floating Bear (1961), which saw editor LeRoi Jones jailed for his pains. (Maynard & Miles A9).
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. TO FUCK IS TO LOVE AGAIN. (Kyrie Eleison Kerista), or,THE SITUATION IN THE WEST, FOLLOWED BY A HOLY PROPOSAL. 1965.
Harris, Marguerite. AN ABSOLUTE AND GLORIOUS NEW YEAR 1965. 1964
MAXIMS AND APHORISMS FROM THE LETTERS OF D.H. LAWRENCE. Compiled with appended poems by Marguerite Harris. 1964.
Pelieu, Claude. AUTOMATIC PILOT. Translated by Mary Beach. 1964. Printed by Ed Sanders for City Lights Books.
Pound, Ezra. THE CANTOS CX-CXVI. 4to. Cover by Joe Brainard. 1967.
Sanders, Ed. A DESCRIPTION OF THE REGAL SOCIETY OF SOOEY SEMEN. 1969.
Sanders, Ed. ED SANDERS NEWSLETTER. 1966.
Sanders, Ed. FUCK GOD IN THE ASS: POEMS BY ED SANDERS. 1967.
Sanders, Ed. THE TOE QUEEN POEMS. Foreword by Consuela. 4to. Cover by Ed Sanders. 1964.
Sanders, Ed. A VALORIUM EDITION OF THE EXTIRE EXTANT WORKS OF THALES!: THE FAMOUS MILESIAN POET, PHILOSOPHER, PHYSICIST, ASTRONOMER, MATHEMATICIAN, COSMOLOGIST, URSTOFF-FREAK, ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR, & MADMAN; with an introduction by Aristotle. 1964.
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Fuck You/ a magazine of the arts
Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts. (1962-1965). Thirteen issues, considered one of the most influential underground magazine of the early Sixties. Started by Ed Sanders--Beat poet, Fugs band member, and proprietor of the underground Peace Eye Bookshop--Fuck You was a deliberately provocative mimeographed journal, at first emphasizing poetry and later expanding to include other writing. Each issue is illustrated with line drawings by Sanders.
Contributors included Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg (also of the Fugs), Carol Bergé, John Wieners, Andy Warhol, Ray Bremser, Lenore Kandel, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Julian Beck, Frank O'Hara, Leroi Jones, Diane DiPrima, William Burroughs, Gary Snyder, Robert Kelly, Judith Malina, Carl Solomon, Gregory Corso, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Gilbert Sorrentino, and many others--a virtual "who's who" of avant garde poetry in the Sixties.
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume1. (NY: December 1962). 4to. Mimeographed stapled sheets. Cover by Ed Sanders. Contributors include: . "Dedicated to pacificism, national defense thru nonviolent resistence, total assault on the culture, vaginal zapping, multilateral indiscriminate apertural conjugation, Hole Cons, Crotch Lake, Peace Eye, mad bands of stompers for peace, & all those gropped by J. Edgar Hoover in the silent halls of congress."
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 2.
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 3. (NY: May 1963). 4to. Mimeographed stapled sheets. Cover by Ed Sanders. Contributors include: . "Dedicated to pacificism, National Defense thru Nonviolent Resistance, Anarchia the Goddess, Orlovsky's long Egyptian finger, Peace Eye, Hole Cons, Peace Walk Dicking, dope thrill Banana rites, Acapulqo Gold, Panamanian Red, Honduras Brown, windowbox freak grass, the anarcho-commio-greaser conspiracy, submarine boarders, mad bands of stompers for Peace, and all those groped by J. Edgar Hoover in the silent halls of Congress".
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 4.
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 5.
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 6.
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Number 5, Volume 7.
FUCK YOU/ A MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, Volume 5, Number 8 (NY: 1965). 4to. Mimeographed stapled sheets. The Mad Motherfucker issue. Cover artwork by Andy Warhol [a fragile photocopy that is highly sought after as an original Warhol piece].
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Fuck You Press Anthologies
DESPAIR: POEMS TO COME DOWN BY. Includes contributions by Ted Berrigan, Paul Blackburn, John Keys, Al Fowler, Harry Fainlight, Ed Sanders, and Szabo. 1964.
THE DICK - An Occasional Newspaper of Observation, Literature & Commentary (The), Vol.1, No.1 (all published). New York City: Feb. 1 Edited & published by Ed Sanders ("created, published & edited by an anonymous spurt-phantom at a secret location in the Lower East Side"). Folio. Two sheets folded to make 8 pages. Front page headline reads: "Poet Ted Berrigan Teaches Parrot to Scarf Cock". Largely written and illustrated by Sanders, but also containing Michael McClure's poem "For Anger".
POEMS FOR MARILYN. 4to. Includes contributions by Joel Oppenheimjer, John Keys, Taylor Mead, and Ed Sanders. September 1962.
Sanders, Ed, ed. BUGGER: AN ANTHOLOGY OF ANAL EROTIC, POUND CAKE, CORNHOLE, ARSE-FREAK & DRECK POEMS. 4to. Includes contributions by Szabo (untitled), Allen Ginsberg (THIS FORM OF LIFE NEEDS SEX), Ed Sanders (CORN HOLE POEM), Ted Berrigan (letter to "Ed" / BUGGERY), John Harriman (BUGGER 3), Ron Padgett (BUGGERY POEM), Al Fowler (untitled), John Keys (BUGGER), and Harry Fainlight (O LONDON). Cover by Ed Sanders. 1964.
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Peace Eye Catalogs
CATALOG #1. (NYC: June/July 1964). 4to. Stapeld wrappers. 14pages. Duplicated and stapled sheets on grey paper. The first of Sanders' legendary rare book catalogs (6 were issued between June/July 1964 and September 1965), offering "manuscripts, holographs, literary relics, tape recordings, drawings, books, magazines, broadsides, tractata, ejaculata, drek, & other effluvia of the literary divinity". Among the less literary items included for sale in this catalog is a packet of pubic hair "contributed the night of Robert Duncan's reading in N.Y., N.Y.", and Allen Ginsberg's Ponds Cold Cream jar "with an inscription in his hand".
CATALOG #2.
CATALOG #3, books, freak-tomes, literary relics, magazines, tapes, broadsides, tractata, zapata, rare poetry scenes, & other vectors from the literary Ejaculatorum. (NYC: Spring 1965). 4to. Stapled wrappers. 34pages. Duplicated and stapled sheets on different coloured paper stocks. Included in this catalog that foreshadowed the opening of Sanders’ Peace Eye Bookshop are Jack Smith’s Beautiful Book, publications by Sanders and the Fuck You Press, Ginsberg and Orlovsky’s annotated pot of Pond’s Cold Cream, Warhol’s "Holy Cats", Manuscripts by Paul Blackburn.
CATALOG #4 of manuscripts, holographs, literary relics, drawings, books, magazines, broadsides, tractata, ejaculata, dreck, freak spews, gobble vectors, poetry, etc. (NYC: 1965). 4to. Stapled wrappers. 34pages. Duplicated and stapled sheets on different coloured paper stocks. The catalog issued shortly after the opening of the Peace Eye Bookshop. Included are many ephemeral magazines and pamphlets such as Big Table, Julian Beck’s 'Songs of the Revolution', Exodus, Fubbalo, Fuzz against Junk, Horde, Insect Trust Gazette, Notes from Underground, Resurgence, Synapse, Wild Dog, Floating Bear, leather bound volumes of Fuck You, material concerning The Fugs and ‘The Unknown Item’ for $4,500 – a bibliographer’s dream.
CATALOG #5.
CATALOG #6.
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Fuck You Quote of the Week
THE FUCK YOU QUOTE OF THE WEEK 1 (by Harry Fainlight). Broadside. September 7, 1964. 4to.
THE FUCK YOU QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2 (by John Ashbery). Broadside. September 14, 1964. 4to.
THE FUCK YOU QUOTE OF THE WEEK 3 (by Kenneth Koch). Broadside. September 23, 1964. 4to.
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FUGS
Sanders, Ed, Ken Weaver, and Betsy Klein, eds. THE FUGS' SONGBOOK. 1965.
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