Bøger af Edward Sanders

"Chekhov" brings the art of poetic biography to its full, booklength expression -- Sanders' practice of investigative poetry unlaying both the life of one of the greatest writers and the turbulent history of pre-Revolutionary Russia, ever on the edge of Europe, the bloody wave of pogroms and anti-Semitic persecutions which marked the times of the great Russian master playwright, story writer and physician Anton Chekhov.

Poetry. Art. A BOOK OF GLYPHS is a facsimile, color reproduction of legendary author, musician and Fugs founder Ed Sanders' first book-length work of glyphs, which he created in Florence, Italy in 2008, using colored pencils and a small sketchbook. Though each piece stands on its own, collectively the 72 glyphs convey, with characteristic humility and humor, many of the themes explored by Sanders over his long and diverse career, including history, myth, activism and pacifism. The glyph--"a drawing that is charged with literary, emotional, historical or mythic and poetic intensity"--has been a dimension of Sanders' poetry since 1962; he cites Zen rock gardens, the markings on Egyptian tombs and the typographic designs in John Cage's writings as influences in the development of the form. Sanders' name for the original notebook is "Smile-Book of Grace-Joy," which aptly describes the range of concerns explored in this important and joyful work.