"The seismic cultural impact of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs was followed by a series of aftershocks. Starting from San Francisco measures a vital instance of this natural process, the circle of aspiring poets around poet and publisher Thomas Rain Crowe and the resurrected Beatitude magazine in the 1970s who used a small-press explosion to sustain and move beyond what their predecessors had inspired. The format here is interview and, with the committment of one who was there and considerable sincerity, Crowe explores the dimensions of a flourishing literary excitement that deserves to be better known. The result is a singular history."
--John Tytell, author of Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1976).