If you're into spoken word/performance poetry, then you may glean things from this CD that are entertaining, (but probably not enough to make it worth buying, unless you're a hardcore poet-head...even then you may still be disappointed), but this work simply canNOT be recommended for people who thought they were buying a musical CD or the "Slam" movie soundtrack. This will bring no great number of people to poetry, and could even serve to push some away. Sorry, but for hardcore poet vets only, particularly fans of Beat generation work.