Letters by Ed Sanders

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Letters by Ed Sanders

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This is a collection of letters by the American poet Ed Sanders.

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

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Sanders, Ed

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James Edward Sanders was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on August 17, 1939. In 1958, at the age of 17, he left the University of Missouri, hitchhiked to New York City, and enrolled at New York University . Between 1961 and 1963, Sanders participated in a number of nonviolent demonstrations against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. At a peace vigil in August 1961, Sanders was fined and later jailed for refusing to pay. While in jail, Sanders wrote his first book, Poem from Jail, ...