just got my copy of the book (more than a month early ) and i can say it is worth the $10-$20 you'll pay for it.

Like cool gardens, you'll recognize several lines that he's used in his music and some of the poems are exactly the same as the songs. He included several of the poems previously released in the limited edition 2CD version of Elect The Dead (deaf nation, salivation, time, undying form, civilization, condemned, praying for peace, and bottled water). There is one titled "Down With The System", it is similar to what's on the back of the first soad album and ends with "Open your eyes/Open your mouths/Close your hands/And make a fist/Down with the System!" The artwork by roger kupelian is great and sako shahinian worked on this book as well.

Unfortunately, the book is rather short. Cool Gardens had 80+ but in this one there are only about 50 poems in the book and 10 of those are only a few words (e.g. "Fancy fucking you here!", "She sells sea shells, buy the real whore!" and "I'm being chased by children playing miniature toy accordions made in China"). There's probably more pages with just illustrations than poetry