Toback doesn't mention that he essentially ripped the whole thing off from the original gambling English professor novel, ACTION (Dial Press, 1972), by James Guetti (1937-2007), long-time member of the Rutgers University English department.

You're all crazy: DAVID MELTZER is the man (youngest original beat, youngest person in the New American Poetry anthology) and just dropped a new book, When I Was a Poet, with City Lights.