Description: This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity. Many voices haunt these poems: black and white, male and female, the oppressor's voice as well as the oppressed. The poet's aim, finally, is to rescue some portion of the drowned and the drowning.
Review Quotes: This poetry feels passionately truthful and his own, a gay young black man adrift between worlds, transcending the fragments of his life in song.-- "Poetry Flash"