Tales of Beatnik Glory: That’s what you get when you meet legendary Beat Poet Ed Sanders. ‘Gregory Corso and Ed Sanders those two guys are really all that’s left of The Beat Generation,’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti told Ron Whitehead in 1999. But since Gregory Corso’s death in 2001 Ed Sanders is the Last Man Standing. I had a great time talking to him at the Vienna Poetry School in 2011. The Fugs’ Ed Sanders is one of the kings of Literary Rock & Roll who put the beat behind a Charles Olson poem and upgraded Allen Ginsberg’s ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness’ to ‘I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock’. And William S. Burroughs had to say this about Ed Sanders legendary ‘Tales of Beatnik Glory’: ‘This irresistible book’s droll charm leads the reader through a generation’s coming-of-age. As the ‘Beatniks’ gave way to the ‘Hippies’, Ed Sanders was there at the crossroads, directing traffic and shaping the decade.’
Tales of Beatnik Glory: That’s what you get when you meet legendary Beat Poet Ed Sanders. ‘Gregory Corso and Ed Sanders those two guys are really all that’s left of The Beat Generation,’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti told Ron Whitehead in 1999. But since Gregory Corso’s death in 2001 Ed Sanders is the Last Man Standing. I had a great time talking to him at the Vienna Poetry School in 2011. The Fugs’ Ed Sanders is one of the kings of Literary Rock & Roll who put the beat behind a Charles Olson poem and upgraded Allen Ginsberg’s ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness’ to ‘I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Rock’. And William S. Burroughs had to say this about Ed Sanders legendary ‘Tales of Beatnik Glory’: ‘This irresistible book’s droll charm leads the reader through a generation’s coming-of-age. As the ‘Beatniks’ gave way to the ‘Hippies’, Ed Sanders was there at the crossroads, directing traffic and shaping the decade.’
Fine additional thougts, Gottfried! Thanks for the entertaining account of your meeting and for the excellent annotations.