Photo: Ginsberg does Ed Sanders, 1985
SANDERS: “I used to go to readings of beatnik poets in the coffee houses on Bleecker Street. I wouldn’t have dared to introduce myself. A fellow needed to write something worthy of my generation. Finally I wrote Poem from Jail (City Lights, 1963). I sent it to Ferlinghetti. And I started writing to Ginsberg. I started to put out Fuck You magazine, and I sent it to my heroes: Beckett, Picasso, Castro, and I sent one to Allen Ginsberg in India. He wrote back. I sent one to Charles Olson. They all started writing back. All of a sudden I had more fame than I should’ve had. I was still in college.”
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