1987 First soft cover edition. Published by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis.  8vo.  236pp + 12p notes.  Spine faded and part of front cover otherwise very good condition.

This American Book Award–winning collection begins with Edward Sanders’ famous first “Poem from Jail,” written in 1961 during his incarceration for disrupting the christening of a nuclear submarine, and covers the twenty tumultuous years that followed.  This vital addition to all collections of contemporary American poetry and culture chronicles Sanders’ literary, political, and rock ‘n’ roll adventures, as well as the joys of life in rural Woodstock, New York.