Double issue featuring Elin Paulson
[SANDERS, Ed (editor).] Fuck You: A Magazine Of The Arts, Number 5 Volume 2. New York: Fuck You Press. 1962.
4to. 34 tangerine mimeographed leaves, unpaginated, staple bound, some blank versos marked with black stains presumably as a consequence of the publishing process; otherwise fine.
First edition. Issue Number 5 Volume 2 of this famous canon of voices in the Mimeograph Revolution. Double Issue
Significantly, female contributors to this particular issue include the poet and later artist Elin Paulson who is described in the ‘Notes for Contributors’ as ‘...a $200 hip chick pacifist call girl. The best blowjob in NYC. Vulva-flower slashed loose in infinity’. In his memoir, Fug You, Sanders expressed regret at his then depiction of women, “I can’t help cringing at some of my editorial comments in the double issue about Elin, who had contributed some fine poems in the issue…I made a strongly erotic statement about Elin” but described his freedom of style as such; ‘My editorial comments were very creative and occasionally not completely moored on the absolute docks of reality”.
The survival rate of any of the issues of the cult Fuck you~i~, which also operates as a historical document and reflection of its time, are extremely scarce, especially in this condition~b~.
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