This book of poetry sets out to redefine what it means to be beat. Working to reaffirm that the beat keeps moving from generation to generation and as it moves it changes with the times, beat is a declaration that beat poetry is alive and well, mixing together life in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, life as a Chicano, and life as a beat poet. This book serves to keep the tradition of the Beat Generation alive and well where it should be...in poetry.