Description: After dropping out of high school due to a dispute in a poetry class, at the age of sixteen, Robert X. Leeds left home and went to sea. Following service in the United States Merchant Marines and Air Force, Robert set out to spend seven years traveling around the world. In ship's engine rooms, around camp fires in the remote African jungles, in detention barracks and in Africa's infamous Roelandstraat prison, Robert found himself exposed to men who recited a different kind of poetry. It was not the classical poetry taught in school, but the rough, gutsy story-poems of poets like Robert Service and Rudyard Kipling. Returning home, he bagan researching the poetic recitations of the old time minstrels who used to perform from tavern to tavern in our old West. For more than fifty-years he sought out and collected the story-poems published in this anthology.

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