"Anyone who sets out to collect the 'best' work done by writers and published by independent non-commercial presses and magazines has to be a little crazy. We should be enormously grateful to Morty Sklar and Jim Mulac for their vision and determination. Here is a sampling of the poeetry, fiction, essays and graphics done by many of this country's best writers."-Leonard Randolph, former Director of the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts.

(Key Words: Anthologies, Literatue, Poetry, Fiction, Graphics, Essays, Small Presses, Morty Sklar, Jim Mulac).