ED SANDERS is a poet and performer whose roots go back to the Beats. During the Vietnam War, he was active in the antiwar movement and founded the Peace Eye Bookstore on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He was also a founding member of the satiric folk-rock band The Fugs as well as the Yippies. He helped found the underground newspaper The East Village Other. He is the author of numerous works of poetry and nonfiction, including Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Selected Poems, 1961-85, winner of an American Book Award; 1968: A History in Verse; the nonfiction work The Family, about Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family; and a multi-volume history of America in investigative poetry. He lives in Woodstock, N.Y.