Ed Sanders is distinguished among the poets of his generation by his engagement with history. Here, in a masterwork of poetic history, he shadows the Time Ghost in retrospect back toward that generation's vital and tragic sources, reconstructing the decisive year 1968 in a unique commingling of personal and political recounting. Like a latterday Cassandra reminiscing of the thunderings of the gods, Sanders evokes participation, performance and prophecy in a fury of emotional tones and swirling factoids, chronicling the ...
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Ed Sanders is distinguished among the poets of his generation by his engagement with history. Here, in a masterwork of poetic history, he shadows the Time Ghost in retrospect back toward that generation's vital and tragic sources, reconstructing the decisive year 1968 in a unique commingling of personal and political recounting. Like a latterday Cassandra reminiscing of the thunderings of the gods, Sanders evokes participation, performance and prophecy in a fury of emotional tones and swirling factoids, chronicling the laughter and terror of his own creative annus mirabilis as freak' poet/ publisher / Yippie activist / rock star in the midst of the near-breaking of the nation.
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Very good. Signed. First Edition. Signed / Limited Edition. Limited to only 100 copies; This being # 52. Signed by Author on the colophon page at rear. Bound in 1/4 Blue cloth with illustrated paper boards. Includes the clear acetate dust jacket as issued. -Very clean, tight, square and unmarked. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. 260 pg. Hand bound in pictorial boards. Acetate Dust Jacket. Book is straight with tight binding and clean text. Numbered 80/100 copies and signed on colophon by Edward Sanders.
