At once praised as brilliant stylists and dismissed as crass opportunists, transgressive authors - such as Kathy Acker, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Martin Amis, Angela Carter, and Irvine Welsh
In spite of its leanings toward the mystical and metaphysical, asserts Mookerjee (literature and writing, Eugene Lang College, The New School), poetry has increasingly connected to worldly issues, and
