Ed Sanders's great document is generative Ur screed for all investigation. It reclaims power for poets designating "'istorin", as scrappy yet sophisticated, timeless, adventure. Investigate the Abyss! Data as sanity, as earth-touching mudra to awakened mind. Down with cognitive dissonance! Key scripture to Jack Kerouac School Naropa's pedagogy since early inception, Investigative Poetics holds ground in this elegant new edition with elucidating preface by Don Byrd. Long live the cultural intervention this text already was and continues to be. It is powerful apotropaic medicine to the syndicates of samsara, a tool kit for survival, mind and senses in tact. And as brilliant antidote to distraction culture, you can actually wake up in the morning and DO something! Some of the energy for my own obsession with archive come to mind, as well as the trickle down to field poets everywhere. Anne Waldman