From Publishers Weekly
Sanders, founder of the rock group The Fugs and editor of Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts , has been connected with almost every aspect of the counterculture. In his writing, he has consistently concentrated on social inequities, the environment and violence while gossiping cheerfully about like-minded poets such as the late Ted Berrigan or Jerome Rothenberg. This volume is not significantly different from earlier work. The poems are still irreverent, still laced with an easygoing, goofy comic quality ("The cafes come The cafes wane / but the best and the final rebel cafe / is inside the human brain"). His message--"The worst drug / is the culture of greed, demolishment / & destruction of open land"--isn't subtle, but it's hard to disagree with. More than a quarter of the text is given over to the tedious "An East Village Hippie in King Arthur's Court," which interpolates the Camelot characters into the high jinks of Sanders's friends. It is filled with sophomoric jokes (an acid trip is described as "Badus Tripus Ultimatus") and a megalomania that assumes that the reader will willingly follow 61 pages of oblique satiric verse. One rather charming ingredient in the book is the inclusion every so often of Sanders's drawings or doodles.
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After A Year Of Isolation
At Century's End
Bankus
The Boing Boing Effect
Building A Book
By Pont Neuf
Carefree Bookshoppe 42 East Street Carefree, Arizona
Cassandra
Cemetery Hill
The Crocus
An East Village Hippie In King Arthur's Court
Elegy For Ted Berrigan
The Evening Star
The Feather Of Justice
Feathers
For Harvey Brown
For The Waterworkers
Hymn To The Rebel Cafe
Images Of Miriam
In Honor Of The Catalpa
The Long Sleep Of Catullus
The Measure Of Open Space
Melville's Father
A Morning With Sappho
The Ocean Etude
Ravens Work In Pairs
Singing For Olson
Some Poems From Mead's Mountain Road
Sorrentinobiblophobia
Spiritual Topography
The Stained Glass Mallow Rose
This Late Winter Morning
Warming Up For The 20th Anniversary Of The Woodstock Festiva
The Wetlands At Wilson State Park
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