still have my copy dividing poets into regions can be confusing but great collection of poets.

This book changed my world when I first read it in 1979 Until I read this book, poetry was dead and ancient suited for a classroom than on the bookshelf of a young teen This book was revelation It woke my senses to what poetry could be, a living expression of oneself and one s world The poems were fresh vibrant and often a little blue in terms of content radical seething with sex and drugs and rebellion As I reread this book, it did not seem to be as radical and shocking to me as a young teen, [...]

have had this book for years, and always find new revelations in it.