Exemplary…A stirring multicultural anthology of contemporary American poetry that includes many women, workers, poor people, gays, blacks, Hispanics, and native Americans among the wide range of outsider voices not commonly heard from in mainstream collections….If you can only purchase one poetry anthology this year, make it this one.

–Booklist review

This anthology is one of the most important of the decade.

–The Bloomsbury Review

…Sorrowful, subversive, this is a compelling anthology.

–Publishers Weekly

*cited as one of ALA’s Notable Books of 1989