Rare Book of the Day – Kill for Peace Again, Tuli Kupferberg. First Edition.
Kill for Peace Again, Tuli Kupferberg. First Edition.
Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) was an American counterculture figure, who was active in poetry, writing, cartoons, publishing, anarchism and music, being a co-founder of the band The Fugs. He was active in the New York pacifist anarchist scene and in 1965 was one of the lecturers at the Free University of New York. He's often considered one of the bridges between the beats and the hippies, and wrote over three dozen books including 1001 Ways to Beat the Draft, 1001 Ways to Live Without Working, and 1001 Ways to Make Love.
Kill for Peace Again was a sequel of sorts to his 1965 Kill for Peace. Published in 1987, it's an interesting little collection of Kupferberg's humor, drawings, and music, showcasing the absurdities of war. This is the first edition, with an ink note of the former owner, Izzy Young, on the rear cover writing that he received this piece from Tuli in 1988. Izzy Young's Folklore Center was a hang out for Dylan and other Village folksingers in the '50s and '60s.
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