The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment. '. . . by the bollocks I mind, by the virgin I'm like, by the smell of teen spirit, the punch that I spike, 'by hydro and chronic and eight-legged sparks, by G-strings and tassels, by bummers and narcs, 'by the temples I razed with a swish of my tail, by the models of Jupiter I built to full scale, 'I am a man of few words, each one a thrown switch. Shall I name the mouth-breathers at whom I pitch 'with superstitious loathing these excretions oozing bile? Then pull up a chair. This could take a while.' - MICHAEL ROBBINS, 'Space Mountain' 'I was born as a woman, I talk you to death,