Salute to Wavy Gravy on his 70th Birthday

You can order Edward Sanders' limited edition, signed, publication of the 41-page A Biographic Appreciation of Wavy Gravy, with the 9 minute "Anthem to Wavy Gravy" CD included.

$25 to Heavy Metal Music Box 729, Woodstock, NY 12498

In print! Tales of Beatnik Glory, Vols. 1, 2, 3, & 4 in a single volume! from Thunder's Mouth Press.

See reviews in New York Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rain Taxi Review of Books

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Some Recent Poems by Edward Sanders

• "Ode to the Beat Generation," "Black Hole Spin-Shift," and "Micronetic Bibles"
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Poems for New Orleans

has been published by North Atlantic Books, at $14.95, with a beautiful cover by Shawn Hall, and designed by Susan Quasha.

Here's what three writers have said about Poems for New Orleans:

“No poet today writes history better than Ed Sanders. From the Duke of Orleans’ fragile grouping of houses in 1718, to wealth and heights with Mardi Gras and fun without guilt, to the storm of Katrina, the bard of our continent gives us the truth with these poems and songs.”
—Joanne Kyger, author of About Now: Collected Poems

“Sanders the poet-maestro of American history excels his own lyrical genius with the truth beams he sends flashing in Poems for New Orleans.”
—Michael McClure, author of Scratching the Beat Surface

“In producing this extraordinary work, Sanders has combined the patient labors of the engaged historian with the creative inspiration of the poet. The Poems enlighten the reader about the thick particularities of real, lived history…. At the same time, they enchant the reader with the magic of the place, so that one can well imagine the visionary Blake crossing paths with the Voodoo Priestess Marie Laveau. … The Poems reveal that [Sanders] has gained a deep and empathetic knowledge of the city’s history, its people, and its complex personality, that he has intently ‘listened to the whispering of its secret mind.’ ”
—John P. Clark, Gregory F. Curtin Distinguished Professor in Humane Letters and the Professions at Loyola University New Orleans

Here's what the publisher says, on the back jacket:

The indomitable spirit of the people of New Orleans is the focus of this powerful suite of poems by counterculture icon Edward Sanders. The book begins with a series of vivid evocations of key events and personalities in the city’s history, then brings this colorful legacy into the present with the harrowing force of Hurricane Katrina. That natural catastrophe, worsened by human factors, is explored as a watershed demonstration of the sociopolitical fissures underlying modern America. Although the still-unfinished tragedy of Katrina suffuses Poems for New Orleans, human resilience in the face of adversity is its ultimate subject. Here is a New Orleans only glimpsed by the outside world, a place whose creativity, humor, and triumphant spirit no tragedy can overcome.

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You can purchase it at your local bookstore, or over the net.

Announcing!!!!

America, a History in Verse, Volumes 1-5, The 20th Century

published as a CD, with each volume indexed. Over 2000 pages tracing the entire century! Published by Blake Route Press, Box 729, Woodstock, NY 12498. $24.95. Available in November of 2008

Ten years in the writing!

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• Robert Kennedy's Final Day

  June 4, 1968

  Edward Sanders

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  You can reach the author at Box 729, Woodstock, NY 12498

Robert Kennedy Recites from Agamemnon

A Poem about RFK Reciting from Aeschylus in a Great and Spontaneous Speech April 4, 1968, campaigning in Indiana, upon hearing of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Song for Barack Obama

—Edward Sanders

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The Bill and Monica Years
1995-1997

from America, a History in Verse, Volume 5 (1986-2000) (to appear in America, the 20th Century, Volumes 1-5, a CD edition!!! with indexes to all volumes) to be available in an edition designed by Austin Metze in late-summer 2008

—Edward Sanders

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A Tribute to Sappho

—a talk, with music, given at Poet's House in New York City, March 30, 2001

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Some Poems about the Neocon Scam that Has Been Attempted in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Billions Missing from Money Voted by Congress to Help Homeowners in New Orleans after Katrina Disaster

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Poems for New Orleans, a 77 + minute CD of 15 poems about the great Crescent City, past and present, is now published! Ed Sanders worked on this CD from January through May, recording it at Piety Street Studios in New Orleans. Mark Bingham composed and produced the music for the 15 poems. The music, performed by almost 40 of N.O.'s finest musicians and performers, is absolutely brilliant!!!!

Poems for New Orleans is available from parisrecords.net

Watch for the book version of Poems for New Orleans, to be published by North Atlantic Books (Distributed by Random House) in August, 2008!!!

Recent Essay by Edward Sanders

Writing, Social Activism and Revolution

a Talk with Poetry and Music

—the keynote address to the New York College English Association Spring Converence,

SUNY New Paltz, April 11

New Poem by Edward Sanders, "In Praise of William Morris," from America, a History in Verse, Volume 6, The 19th Century

Poems for New Orleans

–a report on the recent Book and CD project

Edward Sanders

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Ode to Helen Hill

a biographic poem on the New Orleans filmmaker

Edward Sanders

A Salute to Wavy Gravy!!!

This is a biographical salute to the vast-vim'd human known as Wavy Gravy. Shakespeare once began a poem, "Who is Silvia? What is she?" Those are the questions we shall try to answer in this appreciation. Who is Wavy Gravy? What is he? as we trace his life and times, pointing out interesting facts here and there, in order to savor and understand the meaning of his celebrated voyage in the Great Flow.

Link to complete Biographic Appreciation of the Wavester.

New & Updated Poem by Edward Sanders

The Indictment and Conviction of George Bush— a World Wide Party

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A Poetic Essay on the Recent History and Future Fate of the Manufacture and Use of Landmines in the World. You think landmines are being phased out? Read this Essay

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A Visit To Prague
for the 2005
Prague Writers' Festival

In early June of 2005, I visited Prague to take part in the Prague Writers’ Festival. It was a very interesting and complicated time for me, which plucked the strings of much that has happened in the last forty years, so I decided to prepare a report. I’ll begun with some memories of how one of my bardic mentors impacted world history through a trip he made to Prague in the spring of 1965.

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