God & Other Poems offers the very last, riveting poems of poet, publisher, anti-censorship-warrior, Paul Carroll. Undaunted by the knowledge that he would die in just weeks, he forged on, continuously writing, until semi-consciousness seized control. He jokes about having a date with God, laments that he is “tired of being a man.” He displays his endless imagination and brio in questions as “Have you ever looked closely at a horse’s vagina?” This is the same man who born into wealth, went through college on the GI bill after his father righteously used the family fortune to pay his depositors an unprecedented $.70 cents on the dollar, when his bank was wrongly foreclosed. Also the same man who, with his Big Table Magazine, helped publish the first segments of Naked Lunch, and Jack Kerouac’s “Old Angel Midnight" and then bucked both the University of Chicago and the US Post Office in their attempts to censor the magazine. Also, the man who founded the Poetry Center of Chicago and the Writing Program at the University of Illinois/Chicago.. He interviewed Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg for Playboy Magazine. He wrote criticism, The Poem In Its Skin, and edited the prescient anthology, Young American Poets.