Compiled by poets who have been at the heart of this vibrant and original movement since its earliest days, Aloud! is an inclusive cross section of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from all parts of America. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

New York City's Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a Lower East Side institution, is known for hosting poetry slams, or public recitals of poems competitively graded by the audience. This is participatory performance poetry with an urban groundswell behind it-oral, multicultural, political, uninhibited. But how does the poetry come across once it's been conventionally-and ``silently''-published? ``Hear this book with your eyes!'' exhorts coeditor Holman; in his rambling introduction, Algarin urges poetry as ``a living art,'' as if to fight off print's inertia. All readers won't be floored by the result, which includes lines and stanzas (by Mike Tyler, Edwin Torres, Willie Perdomo, Raul Salinas, others) that beg to be sung or shouted, and do not rest easy on the page. But the vitality of the collection is conspicuous even when its anarchy causes some impatience. A maximalist poetry-compounded of emotional drive, visceral detail, real-life words and rhythms-offers something vigorous even when it reads as virtually unedited. The voices collected (more than 100) are challenging. (Aug.) From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

I Poetry in the Twentieth-First Century
Darryl Strawberry Asleep In A Field Of Dreams At Ease
An Open Letter To Myself Front Page Or Bust "There Must Be A Conspiracy"
Fantasy Lover #5 Housecleaning
Check One Game Boy
Lonely Night In New York At The Aids Clinic U. N. Resolution
The Romanticization
Blues Tomorrow Wait
Rock Me, Goong Hay! Twas The Night Before Chinese New Year'S
The Stupid Jerk I'M Obsessed With Sex Goddess Of The Western Hemisphere
Please Don'T Take My Air Jordans Thomas The Burnt English Muffin Just Another Misunderstood Brother
No, Fuckme You Kill My Love For Your Love For Me Kills Me
Sendin' Out
His Victim Peephole
I Heard The Bird Mambo In "T" Major
New York City Rundown (European On Me)
Rebirth Of New Rican The Last Hispanic
Project Princess Morenita The Spot
Poem Ii For Anne Sexton She'S Come Undone Mother Love
Nigger-Reecan Blues Reflections On The Metro North, Winter 1990
Twins Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down
La Negra Celibacy
Geneva Cottrell, Waiting For The Dog To Die Save The Animals
I Finally Managed To Speak To Her Deformed Finger One Thing Leads To Another
We All Need Work Cause And Effect
The Emperor'S Second Wife Elegy Address
Dig On The Decade I.E. Seducer Mission-Fuckin'-Impossible
The Most Beautiful Word In The American Language 7:00 And The Tulips Are Red The Bakery Has No Bakers Ii. Poetry Of The 1990S
Roma Roja Raja Tabla Voraz Leoacute;N Foolish Rituals
Dust-Bowl Memory Bells
Choices Black Mesa
1-800-Hot-Ribs Mr. X Deathwatch Beetle
Sure You Can Ask Me A Personal Question Alphabet City Serenade Pentilde;A'S Son
Tough Language American Sonnet Dream 7219
Rebellion Is The Circle Of A Lover'S Hands (Pelliacute;N And Nina) Two Mexicanos Lynched In Santa Cruz, California, May 3, 1877 Latin NigHT AT THE PAWNSHOP
Satinlady Blues Born To Act Out
Pussy & Cash Sun Ra!
Latin Music In New York Skull Food #2
The Details We Fall For Heat
Evergreen (A Chant For The Tropical Rain Forest) Poem—Miguel Pintilde;Ero
Disclaimer 6 Short Poems Rock'N'Roll Mythology
Spanish Lesson Sly And The Family Stone Under The Big Tit, Atlanta, 1973
God, Mingus And Myself
Dinosaur Love What'S That Clicking On Our Telephone Line?
Trick

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