{"product_id":"lets-not-keep-fighting-the-edward-sanders-9781566892346","title":"Let's Not Keep Fighting the Trojan War: New and Selected Poems 1986-2009","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe major work from a hero of Beat poetry, political activism, and rock 'n' roll.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sanders  is] the poet-maestro of American history.\"--\u003cb\u003eMichael McClure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sanders has been an astonishing and fertile presence n our cutlural and political landscape...But it is Sanders's poetry, more than anything else he does, that pulls together all the varied strands of his interests to weave them in to the body of one of our century's most coherent poetics.\"--\u003cb\u003eAndrei Codrescu\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Public Radio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Sanders' poetry we find...one of the clearest and most necessary bodies of work still being written today.\"-- \u003ci\u003ePoetry Project Newsletter \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePicking up where \u003ci\u003eThirsting for Peace in a Raging Century\u003c\/i\u003e left off and spanning more than two decades, \u003cb\u003eEdward Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e' new collection animates the whole of human history--breathing new life into ancient stories, celebrating artists and activists, telling tales of beatnik escapades, eulogizing friends and politicians, and lamenting the follies that have led us to war time and again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIllustrated throughout, Sanders' poems contain visuals that range from drawings of Egyptian hieroglyphs to a scan of Robert Creeley's sage counsel, written on a napkin: \"Things \/ come and go. \/ Then \/ let them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSanders also offers his own advice in \"To the Revolutionaries Not Yet Born\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWork in extra dimensions\u003cbr\u003eThink 100 years ahead\u003cbr\u003eEnjoy your Revolution\u003cbr\u003eShow enough mercy so\u003cbr\u003e that Mercy shows the way\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith exuberant pragmatism and visionary scholarship, Sanders continues to mark the way forward for poets and peacemakers, rock 'n' rollers, and revolutionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward Sanders\u003c\/b\u003e is the best-selling author of the Charles Manson expos  \u003ci\u003eThe Family\u003c\/i\u003e, author of the recently published \u003ci\u003ePoems for New Orleans\u003c\/i\u003e, and a recipient of the American Book Award. He is also a founding member of the legendary rock group The Fugs, a classics scholar, publisher, former bookseller, and pioneer in investigative poetics. He lives in Woodstock, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566892341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566892346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coffee House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Edward Sanders","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44138630938879,"sku":"9781566892346","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a092355a-65e1-4e08-91b9-608ef171bb6a.jpg?v=1687900709","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lets-not-keep-fighting-the-edward-sanders-9781566892346","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}