Francesco Levato writes with an urgency that will pull the covers off your eyes and ears. He is another Ginsberg appealing to America's soul. Wake Up! Here are twenty-one "hard" poems with a tenderness woven into lines of violence. The women in Levato's poems are survivors. A blues tint shadows many of the pages of Marginal State. Levato's urban silhouettes are memories waiting for morning light. - E. Ethelbert Miller, director, African American Resource Center, Howard University                     -