Everything about Ed Sanders totally explained
Ed Sanders (born
August 17,
1939) is an
American poet,
singer,
social activist,
environmentalist,
author and
publisher. He has been called a bridge between the
Beat and
Hippie generations.
Biography
Sanders was born in
Kansas City,
Missouri. He dropped out of the
University of Missouri in 1958 and hitchhiked to
New York City’s Greenwich Village. He wrote his first major poem,
Poem from Jail, on toilet paper in his cell after being jailed for protesting against nuclear proliferation in 1961.
In 1962, he founded the
avant-garde journal, . Sanders opened the Peace Eye Bookstore (147 Avenue A in what was then the
Lower East Side), which became a gathering place for bohemians and radicals.
Sanders graduated from
New York University in 1964, with a degree in
Classics. In 1965, he founded
The Fugs with
Tuli Kupferberg. The band broke up in 1969 and reformed in 1984.
In 1971, Sanders wrote
The Family, a profile of the events leading up to the Tate-LaBianca murders. He obtained access to the
Manson Family by posing as a "Satanic guru-maniac and dope-trapped psychopath."
As of 2006, Sanders lives in
Woodstock, New York where he publishes the
Woodstock Journal with his wife of over 36 years, the writer and
painter Miriam R. Sanders. He also invents musical instruments including the Talking Tie, the
microtonal Microlyre and the Lisa Lyre, a musical contraption involving light-activated switches and a reproduction of Da Vinci's
Mona Lisa.
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