Fuck You Magazine Collection III

(Ed Sanders, 1962-1965)
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I’ll print anything.” Completing our Fuck You Magazine collection, is this final batch of 4 issues of the short-lived early underground zine. The most artistically-liberating decree since Pound implored the emergent Modernists to “Make It New!”, poet Ed Saunders similarly ushered in a revolutionary new wave of freethinking artists and writers with his 1962 publication of Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts. Published from a “secret location on the Lower East Side” of New York City and printed on color construction paper using a hand-cranked mimeograph, and distributed for free, the magazine commenced with the proclamation “Dedicated to Pacifism, Unilateral Disarmament, National Defense thru Nonviolent Resistence, Multilateral Indiscriminate Apertural Conjugation, Anarchism, World Federalism, Civil Disobedience, Obstructers & Submarine Boarders, and All Those Groped by J. Edgar Hoover in the Silent Halls of Congress.” Taking aim at ‘square’ culture and defending the imperative morality of pacifism, free speech, free sex, and the use of psychedelics, Saunders published submissions by a coterie of notable writers including Antonin Artaud, W. H. Auden, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Diane DiPrima, Norman Mailer, Frank O’Hara, Gary Snyder, and Andy Warhol. Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts was essential reading in many artistic circles in New York and acted as a literary bridge from The Beat Gerneration to the nascent Hippie movement that would soon sweep the nation. The magazine ran from 1962-1965, ending when Saunder’s Peace Eye bookstore was raided by authorities on New Year’s Day 1966.

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