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    Tuli Kupferberg’s Yeah!: The Tiny Magazine That Captured the 1960s

    by Alex Zafiris Nov 30, 2017 3 minutes

    Interior spread from issue no. 4 of Yeah!

    It was 1961. Eisenhower had cut ties with Cuba, JFK was sworn in, the Berlin Wall went up, the Shirelles were in the top ten for “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” and America fizzed with the unchartered sexual dynamics created by the newly introduced pill. Meanwhile, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the homegrown poet-anarchist Tuli Kupferberg—already immortalized as the figure who survived after leaping off the Brooklyn Bridge in Allen Ginsberg’s 1955 poem “Howl”—put out the first issue of  The opening page presented the zine as “a satyric excursion

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