Miriam and Ed Sanders, married since 1967, here at Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt Tremper, NY, for Snapshot Poetics Seminar that included Allen, and John Daido Loori who was Abbot at the time. Snapped by Allen
Crash course in Ed Sanders, for the unfamiliar: Ed founded the avant-garde journal “Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts” while still in school, graduated in 1964 with a degree in classical Greek, formed the Fugs that same year with Tuli Kupferberg and Ken Weaver (notable for such ditties as ‘Saran Wrap fuck’, & ‘Boobs a Lot,’ and setting music to Blake’s ‘Ah Sunflower’ among many greats) & created the Peace Eye bookstore at 383 East 10th Street in the Lower East Side, a vortex for bohemian activity in the mid 1960s, thus inevitably raided by the police, only for him to prevail in court. In 1971 he published his chronicle of the Manson Family Sharon Tate murders ‘The Family.’ In 1976 founded of the Investigative Poetry movement and in the 80s and 90s (along with reforming The Fugs in 1984) started a series of biographical historic poems on Chekov, Allen Ginsberg, the year 1968, and an American History in three volumes.. and this is just the tip of the iceberg! Let’s not forget Tales of Beatnik Glory 1990 and Jail Poem 1961 written on toilet paper (jailed for protesting a nuclear submarine launch) Lot’s more to add… “Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side” was published in 2011 by DaCapo Press
