Voices from the Outer Dark: Ten American Poets the Literary Establishment Has Yet to Deserve
American poetry is far richer, stranger, and more vital than its most celebrated names suggest. Beyond the prizes and the prestigious quarterlies, a constellation of poets labors in productive obscurity — publishing with indie presses, performing in basements, circulating their work through zines and chapbooks and the underground economies of the literary world. The Dark House Press has assembled ten such voices: writers whose work demands attention, whose outsider status is not a deficiency but