"What is LUSH?" you ask. Lush is a poetry anthology and cocktail guide. Read a poem featuring your favorite drink! Follow the accompanying recipe to make the drink! Enjoy swell cartoons.

LUSH features tales and verse that share perspectives on alcohol consumption. All the glitter and romance, the wee-hour binges in dark solitudes, groggy and usurping the dawn, with a measure of foot in mouth and instinctive longings heaped on top.

One night of flirting with this latest SPOUT anthology is like waking up in a strange bed with a dull headache, the warmth of the stranger next to you prompting your retreat to the door.

Featuring Cocktail recipes and eye-popping graphics, this promises to be one of our most evocative, if not controversial anthologies. Of course, expect a liquor-fueled Spout celebration (natch) to roll out this edition. The floor and the microphone will be wet with the odor of demon rum, hillbilly hotjuice, North Dakota everclear.