INVESTIGATIVE POETRY

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1976. 40 pages; Inscribed on front endpaper by Sanders: “To Jane, with/respect and love/For all the/years,/Ed/1977/Boulder.” Very good with some spotting to the original printed, stapled wrappers. 10” x 7” Minor wear to foredge and tip. Sanders is the founder of the Investigative Poetry movement. This manifesto, Investigative Poetry, had an impact on investigative writing and poetry during the ensuing decades. In the 1990s, Sanders began utilizing the principles of Investigative Poetry to create a series of book-length poems on literary figures and American History. This copy was signed during one of Sanders talks at the Naropa Institure. A note states: “Lecture Prepared for the Visiting Spontaneous Poetics Academy, The Naropa Institute Boulder, Colorado July 8, 1975 - and revised in the fall of '75 and winter of '76-Ed Sanders.