""Every Last one of us is Someone Else's Outsider." Poet and jazz musician Al Young plays the introductory notes for this anthology about living or thinking on the edge. This collection of poems is a powerful montage, a complex portrait of the ways in which a society is fractured. Written from beyond the pale by those who don't belong to a majority or dominant group, these poems enter the world of the homeless man on the street, the body of Joan of Arc, the mind of a man who lives between two countries. Whatever separates us - language, religion, skin color, age, gender, disease, betrayal, or simple distance - you will find it addressed here."--BOOK JACKET.