Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry makes it
so you can't see straight.
surfaces-and all that's underneath-
the lust, the joy, the grief. From wordplay to parenting. From Sweden to Utah. From Martin Luther King, Jr. to May Swenson. From the dentist's office to the dog pound. From spirit to eros. And in the end, we find that Perhaps straight's not quite so great
as it cracks up to be.