This collection gathers the best of the many poems published in chapbooks and periodicals by Robert Flanagan from 1969-2009. New York poet Colette Inez says, "These intelligent, sharply focused poems that recall a gritty past of rented apartments, cracked tar, the fight game, and turf wars in working class urban America. Flanagan has also published a USMC novel, Maggot--which went through 12 printings--three collections of short stories, and two stage plays produced by community and professional theaters.