Do You Have a Band? : Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City

The Fugs are coming -- Lou Reed: "In the beginning was the word"--Proto-punk and poetry on St. Mark's Place -- Richard Hell, Genesis: grasp, and the making of the blank generation -- "I just got different theories": Patti Smith and the New York School of poetry -- Giorno poetry systems -- Eileen Myles and the International Fuck Frank O'Hara movement -- "Sit on my face!": Dennis Cooper, the first punk poet -- Afterword: people who died