ONE SMALL SEED MAGAZINE Issue #30 dig.05 | Page 47

“FUCK YOU”
‘ZINE REMAINS
REVOLUTIONARY
Ed Sanders — US beat poet, Fugs member, social activist,
environmentalist and owner of former Peace Eye Bookshop
in New York’s East Village — was also editor, founder and
contributor of the mimeograph journal titled “Fuck You /
A Magazine of the Arts”. With 13 issues released between
1962-1965, Sanders’ poetry ‘zine charged through New
York’s underground with a ferocious and infectious energy
that continues to resonate today.
The contributor list is hugely impressive with names that
included Tuli Kupferberg (also from the Fugs), pop artist
Andy Warhol, and beat writers William Burroughs and Allen
Ginsberg. Daring, sexually provocative and experimental,
“Fuck You” was dedicated to freedom of expression, bitchy
in its wit, offensively humorous and celebrated sexual
liberation and the use of psychedelics years’ before the
Summer of Love.