Ed Sanders, printer and editor, Fuck You/ A Magazine of the Arts, Number 5, Volume 5, (New York, NY: Fuck You Press, 1963). The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library.

In 1962, Ed Sanders founded Fuck You, an underground, avant-garde literary magazine. He printed using a mimeograph, a printing machine growing in availability then, and gave copies out for free. FY soon joined other magazines in the Mimeograph Revolution, a movement of independent, non-commercial publishers like Sanders. The daring freedom granted by self-publishing shows in a typical FY issue, in which Sanders inserts his own sexualized Egyptian hieroglyphics, scathing political declarations, and satiric pornographic advertisements. However, the literature within FY, Issue 5:5 transcends the narrow, sexual/political image Sanders sets up. While it does contain sexually and politically charged poems, Issue 5:5 also has works on such ideas as spiritual discovery, cannibalism, and nature, which defy social and literary convention in ways broader than Sanders’s framework. Thus, Issue 5:5 gave voice to a greater community of writers and their own definitions of rebellion by taking Beat nonconformity to an independent medium.