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Bud Osborn's point of reference is the street corners bordered by Main and Hastings on Vancouver's East Side, known as "Hundred Block Rock" - the poorest neighbourhood in Canada. While this area is well-known for its drug users, criminals, and prostitutes, it is also home to recovering addicts, single mothers, and those whom society has cast aside. As a poet who has known addiction and poverty himself, Bud Osborn sheds light on the Hundred Block Rock, putting faces and names to those who find ways and means to survive there. These poems are direct confessionals that speak valiantly and movingly of the community of the street. They bring to life the squalid intensity of Hundred Block Rock, while at the same time articulating the redemptive spirit of survival that nurtures and sustains its inhabitants.