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readbyrodkelly's review
4.0
Overall I enjoyed this collection of poetry/short-stories/plays/song lyrics/essays (yes, all that!) written by the powerful writer/musician/dancer/activist (yes, all that!) Assotto Saint. I often have trouble with books that are so contemporaneous of a certain time period, this being the late 80s/early 90s, in the grips of the AIDs pandemic. However, there is such a powerful energy behind Saint's writing, which gives it a timeless feeling; writing that (literally) screams "hear me, muthafucka!" The bulk of this collection is poetry, the most powerful being the collection of poems written in the wake of his partner's AIDs related death. The rest was a bit inconsistent, but written in that bold and inextinguishable voice that permeates the entire work.
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