\tJ.D. Rage (1947-2018) said she dreamed herself up in a drug rehab in 1978 and came to life in February of 1985 on the sixth anniversary of the suicide of Sid Vicious. She believed that words are more important for their sound than their conventional meaning but that when both effects combine in harmony, the result is true beauty. \tWhile searching for excitement and peace, she played bass guitar and sang lead in several bands - The Bandits, The Line-Up, Valkyries, and Disciples of Rage, among others - and Baby Boom, with whom she recorded the 1984 EP Basket Case [Rant Records V2279] She wrote three unpublished novels, painted many portraits, and worked with film and digital photography. \tJD was co-editor of CURARE, a multimedia magazine put out by Venom Press, which she co-founded with Jan Schmidt. Together they published chapbooks by Larry Jones, Bruce Weber, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Susan Sherman, David Huberman and others. JD Rage was one of the co-hosts of the Sunday Open Series at ABC No Rio in New York in the 1990's. Some of the poems in this book were first published in Stained Sheets, the irregular journal of that "unorganized reading". Besides her seven chapbooks, JD had poems published in Downtown Poets (1999) from Montclair Takilma Books [ISBN 9 780966 936711] and Anthology ABC No Rio Open Mike 1987 [ISBN 0-934911-01-2] \tAnd all the while she was still Janet Whalen, Claims Manager at the State Insurance Fund down on Church Street. She had some of her paintings hanging in her office there. They didn't mind her being odd because she did her job so well, and she rose to a management position, tattoos and all, before declining health forced her early retirement.