Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry.

Ed Sanders, Investigative Poetry, 1976. First Edition. City Lights: San Francisco. Side-stapled Softcover. Inscribed by the author to unidentified frequent collaborator: "For Sid / w/fond memories / of many a dim, smokey / hyper-glory literary / gathering / / Ed".

Ed Sanders has been one of the most forceful, politically intransigent, communally-driven, and idiosyncratic forces in the American avant-garde for nearly six decades; without his activity as a poet, historian, publisher (Fuck You Press), activist and musician (as a motivating member of the Fugs) today's communities of dissent in America would vastly different and less radical. Among his most important ideas, and one which infuses the goals and motivations of the Revenant Archive itself, is that of Investigative Poetics, a fusion of historiography and poetry that hearkens back to the calling of the epic poets with a radical revisioning – first promulgated in this chapbook.

This copy is inscribed by Sanders to a yet-unidentified poet and comrade: "For Sid / w/fond memories / of many a dim, smokey / hyper-glory literary / gathering / / Ed"