Ed Sanders
American poet, editor, and musician — founder and editor of Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts (1962-1965) and co-founder (with Tuli Kupferberg) of the avant-garde rock band The Fugs (1964). Mailer's poem 'The Executioner's Song' appears in Sanders's Fuck You no. 5 (September 1964) — 64.18 — alongside poems by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, William Burroughs, Charles Olson, Michael McClure, Judith Malina, Gary Snyder, and others. Per Lennon, The Fugs are described in The Armies of the Night (68.8).
Ed Sanders founded Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts in February 1962 as a mimeographed New York little magazine — the cornerstone of the “mimeograph revolution” of the early 1960s. The magazine ran 13 issues through 1965; issue no. 5 (September 1964) is the venue for Mailer’s poem “The Executioner’s Song” (64.18), alongside contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, William Burroughs, Charles Olson, Michael McClure, Judith Malina, Gary Snyder, and others. The issue is 83 pages, “reproduced typescript on sheets of various colors, unbound, stapled,” per Lennon.
In 1964 Sanders co-founded (with Tuli Kupferberg) the avant-garde rock band The Fugs — a band whose performances at The Peace Eye Bookstore in the East Village were a fixture of mid-1960s New York counterculture. Per Lennon’s 64.18 entry, The Fugs are described in The Armies of the Night (68.8) — they appear during Mailer’s account of the 21 October 1967 Pentagon protest. Sanders went on to publish The Family: The Story of Charles Manson’s Dune Buggy Attack Battalion (1971) and a long sequence of book-length poems including America: A History in Verse (2000–2008).
Stub; to be expanded as Sanders / The Fugs recur across Mailer’s life.