Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems 1961-1985

Recommended by Hendrik Hertzberg in a recent issue of The New Yorker as the perfect replacement for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat, Edward Sanders has been at the forefront of the American counterculture for more than fifty years. In the 1960s, he co-founded The Fugs, a legendary rock band, opened the Peace Eye bookstore, and began publishing Fuck You: A Journal of the Arts. He is also a classics scholar, pioneer in investigative poetics, inventor of musical instruments, recipient of an American Book Award, bestselling author of the Charles Manson expose, The Family, and author of the ambitious, nine-volume project, America: A History in Verse-three volumes of which have now been published. Now back in print, this American Book Award-winning collection captures all the joy and tumult of the ‘60s and is the companion volume to the simultaneously published Let’s Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: Selected Poems 1986-2008.