Full disclosure: I'm friends with a few people involved with this collection (and wish I was friends with many others). In any case, my partially biased review is that this collection is vibrant, vital and necessary. It showcases a breathtakingly broad selection of styles, themes, and genres. If you wanted to explain to someone what spoken word looks like in the modern era the best thing to do would probably be to throw this book directly at their heads and proclaim: "FEAST YER EYES ON THIS, YE KNOWLEDGE-THIRSTY SCOUNDREL!"

They'll thank you later. Probably.

If this book was an animal it would be a pansexual gryphon with cybernetic enhancements that crochets festive covers for molotov cocktails.

Did I mention I like this book? Because I quite liked it.