From the back cover of the book, "In the tradition of Jason and the Argonauts, Neal Cassady, Jack Kerouac and The Beats, Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters, The Grateful Dead, and the Living Theater come The Carma Bums... a Los Angeles group of poet performers that evolved out of the counterculture miasma of the '80s underground L.A. art/music/poetry scene. A spoken word jigsaw of deconstructionist DaDa dead hippie beatnik bebop punk post punk new age no age dead generation dead heads working the Western U.S. and Canada from behind the wheel of their glorious '59 Cadillac sedan "Farther", they have been called poets, stand up comics, satirists, improv artists and a "happening" in coffee houses, art galleries, theaters, bookstores, and currently on the internet where they travel cyberspace on their superhighway tour of words without end..."