Spanning the period from the modernists through the poets of "Origin" and "The Black Mountain Review, " the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, and the New York poets of the Poet's Theatre to the first mapping and performance of a new poetry and poetics from the racial, sexual, aboriginal, and cultural margins of a formerly Eurocentric and chauvinist poetry, "Poet to Publisher" tells the story of how poetry has become as liberating a movement in writing and letters as abstract expressionism has been in the visual arts and jazz has been in music.