FUCK YOU: A Magazine of the Arts - Number 5, Volume 4 (Summer 1963)

New York: Fuck You Press, [1963]. 4to.; Side-stapled mimeo wraps with illustrations on colored pages; lightly sunned edges; mild edge wear and light soiling, else near fine. Signed by Sanders on back cover. Cover art by Sanders. Sanders typed this issue in the quarters of The Living Theater in NYC, using the group’s typewriter- type stencils. Printed specifically to distribute at the Great March on Washington, August 1963 . [Sanders 48]. This is the issue that two years later would cause the raid on Peace Eye Bookstore. In the “Notes to Contributors,” Sanders announces (admittedly straying from reality) that he had the first fifty-three hieroglyphs of Akh-en-Aten’s “Hymn to the Sun Disc” tattooed on his private parts. [Sanders 49]. It was this comment that offended the raiding officer. Provocative lines such as "We Must Fuck One Another or Die!" and "Grope for Peace" are common throughout the magazine.Contributors included Sanders, Tuli Kupferberg (also of the Fugs), Carol Berge, John Wieners, Andy Warhol, Ray Bremser, Lenore Kandel, Charles Olson, Joel Oppenheimer, Peter Orlovsky, Philip Whalen, Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Huncke, Julian Beck, Frank O'Hara, Leroi Jones, Diane DiPrima, William Burroughs, Gay Snyder, Robert Kelly, Judith Malina, Carl Solomon, Gregory Corso, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Michael McClure, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard, Gilbert Sorrentino, and many others - the "A" list of avant garde poetry in the '60s.