The Fugs' Songbook! Ed. E. Sanders, K. Weaver and B....
The Fugs' Songbook! Ed. E. Sanders, K. Weaver and B. Klein. New York, Peace Eye Bookstore, 1965, (2),27 lvs., printed on recto only, orig. pict. wr., 4to.
- Backwrapper lacks upper right corner.
= This is the very rare original first issue of this songbook which has had multiple reprints. Includes table of contents and list of the Fugs' then-current band lineup: Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, Len Weaver, Steve Weber, Peter Stampfel, Vinny Leary and Moe Mahoney. "The FUGS are an emanation or hallucination of the culture of the Lower East Side. (...) The real meaning of the FUGS lies in the term BODY POETRY, to get at the frenzy of the thing, the grope-thing; that is, to use the enormous technical proficiences of modern poetry (the revolutions of Ginsberg, Robt [sic] Creeley, W.C. Williams, Ez Pound, & the Big O Charles Olson) in musical presentation" (p.1). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
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The Fugs' Songbook! Ed. E. Sanders, K. Weaver and B. Klein. New York, Peace Eye Bookstore, 1965, (2),27 lvs., printed on recto only, orig. pict. wr., 4to.
- Backwrapper lacks upper right corner.
= This is the very rare original first issue of this songbook which has had multiple reprints. Includes table of contents and list of the Fugs' then-current band lineup: Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, Len Weaver, Steve Weber, Peter Stampfel, Vinny Leary and Moe Mahoney. "The FUGS are an emanation or hallucination of the culture of the Lower East Side. (...) The real meaning of the FUGS lies in the term BODY POETRY, to get at the frenzy of the thing, the grope-thing; that is, to use the enormous technical proficiences of modern poetry (the revolutions of Ginsberg, Robt [sic] Creeley, W.C. Williams, Ez Pound, & the Big O Charles Olson) in musical presentation" (p.1). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
