1968: A History in Verse

“… this is the ’68 / whose pulses still surge / in my psyche,” writes author Edward Sanders. Distinguished among the poets of his generation by his engagement with history, including its missed chances, wrong turns, broken hearts. Here, Sanders looks back toward that generation's vital and tragic sources, reconstructing the decisive year 1968 in a unique commingling of personal and political poetry. Sanders evokes participation, performance and prophecy in a fury of emotional tones and swirling facts, chronicling the laughter and terror of his own creative annus mirabilis as freak' poet/ publisher / Yippie activist / rock star in the midst of the near-breaking of the nation.