BEATS ME is quintessentially a love story and a "fascinating account os some of the most vibrant, stormy and controversial times in American literature." Combining literary history with very personal drama I tell the tale of my husband, Paul Carroll, and his exploits with the censorship of his little magazine, Big Table, by The University of Chicago and the attempted censorship the U. S. Post Office in 1959. His stories, told to me nightly, progress like Scheherazade's through the course of the last year of his life when he learns he is dying from cancer. His wounded friendship with Allen...

Paul D. Carroll didn't "rage against the dying of the night"- he laughed, and sang. These 30 amazing poems were written in the last 10 weeks of his life. As poet Roger Aplon says, "they are full-bodied, rollicking & downright flabbergasting." He continues, "these images dazzle the imagination while stitching the physical world to the metaphysical. "Poem" which begins: 'What if today the world . . .' where Paul entwines the images of the very concrete' physical world with suspiciously sacred & elusive images from dream & memory: the fox's face becomes the shaver's face in the mirror that takes...