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Fuck You
EditorEd Sanders
CategoriesAvant-Garde
PublisherEd Sanders
First issueFeb/April 1962
Final issue1965
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts was a literary magazine founded in 1962 by the poet Ed Sanders on the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanders later co-founded the musical group The Fugs. Sanders produced thirteen issues of Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts from 1962 to 1965.[1]

The credo for the magazine, originated by Sanders, was I'll print anything. Its first issue contained the following dedication: "Dedicated to Pacifism, Unilateral Disarmament, National Defense thru Nonviolent Resistence [sic], Multilateral Indiscriminate Apertural Conjugation, Anarchism, World Federalism, Civil Disobedience, Obstructers & Submarine Boarders, and All Those Groped by J. Edgar Hoover in the Silent Halls of Congress."[2]

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts was produced on a mimeograph machine and printed on multi-colored construction paper.

Legacy

Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts was a core publication in the movement known as the Mimeo Revolution.[3] It was dedicated to free expression, and especially defying the taboos around sex and drugs, advocating free love promiscuity and the use of psychedelics long before those were picked up by the more widespread countercultural movements of the late Sixties. Ed Sanders and his collaborators served as a bridge between the Beat generation of the Fifties and the later Hippie counterculture of the mid Sixties.

List of issues

  1. Number 1 (Feb/April 1962)
  2. Number 2 (May 1962)
  3. Number 3 (June 1962)
  4. Number 4 (August 1962)
  5. Number 5, Volume 1 (Dec 1962)
  6. Number 5, Volume 2 (Dec 1962)
  7. Number 5, Volume 3 (May 1963)
  8. Number 5, Volume 4 (??? 1963)
  9. Number 5, Volume 5 (Dec 1963)
  10. Number 5, Volume 6 (April/May 1964)
  11. Number 5, Volume 7 (Sept 1964)
  12. Number 5, Volume 8 (1965)—Mad Motherfucker Issue (Andy Warhol cover)
  13. Number 5, Volume 9 (June 1965)

Participants

Issues included works by:

References

Notes
  1. ^ Eric L. Haralson (January 21, 2014). Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 402. ISBN 978-1-317-76322-2. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  2. ^ "Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts" (PDF) (1). Retrieved June 28, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "RealityStudio website: Fuck You Press Archive". Realitystudio.org. Retrieved 2012-06-24.
Bibliography
  • Fuck You web archive
  • Life Magazine (February 17, 1967).
  • Charters, Ann (ed.). The Portable Beat Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 0-670-83885-3 (hc); ISBN 0-14-015102-8 (pbk).
  • Sanders, Ed. Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side, Da Capo Press, 2011