Dark End Of The StreetDamon foregrounds a number of modern American poets work and lives in order to argue that the American avant garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Discussed is the work of Black Jewish surrealist street poet Bob Kaufman, Boston Brahmin Robert Lowell and three teenaged women writing from a South Boston housing project, pre Stonewall gay poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, and Jewish lesbian in exile Gertrude Stein.