Edited by Alan Kaufman.

From the introduction:

Welcome to the Wild West of American Poetry, the Hole in the Wall of Blakean vision, a two fisted saloon of New World Dreams where you'll meet the greatest outlaw voices from the post-war era to the present day. Here are the inventors of the Beat Generation and the heroes of today's spoken word movement, poets who don't get taught in American poetry 101, yet hold the literary future in their tattooed hands. In this anthological and visual history are innovative crossovers from the fields of music, film, visual arts, comedy and the novel. Here are the demons of the imagination, the Hipsters, Queers, Rappers, Babaraians, Nuyoricans, Renegades, Carma Bums, Unbearables, Hustlers, Slammers, and Cons of Melvillian Darkness and light, who are bringing a fresh cultural dispensation of MTV and bookstore alike: A new American poetry premised on uncompromised integrity and the naked power of visionary words.The academy had best make room for these descendents of Whitman's "Roughs" and Emerson's "Berserkers": Our poets can whip your poets asses. 645 pages paperback $24.95