New York: Penguin Poets, (1994). First edition - African American author's highly praised second collection of poetry (and last to date) Although he has found success as a novelist - with 'The Sellout' winning the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize - reading his poems makes you wish he had also continued to write them. Cover praise from Quincy Troupe, Jessica Hagedorn and Evelyn McDonnell writing in the Village Voice commented that "Beatty piles wordplay upon wordplay in a hyperstack of meaning making him one of the smartest young poets around." 108 pp. ISBN: 0-140587233.

New York: Penguin Poets, (1994). First edition - African American author's highly praised second collection of poetry (and last to date) Although he has found success as a novelist - with 'The Sellout' winning the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize - reading his poems makes you wish he had also continued to write them. Cover praise from Quincy Troupe, Jessica Hagedorn and Evelyn McDonnell writing in the Village Voice commented that "Beatty piles wordplay upon wordplay in a hyperstack of meaning making him one of the smartest young poets around." 108 pp. ISBN: 0-140587233.