This book is a bold exploration of powerful themes: from everyday acts of love and hate in the ghetto to gestures of political and sexual survival in a postmodern no-woman's-land. Wanda Coleman calls these poems "tough-tongued sagas. . . frank, raw, courageous, and sincere." Ruben Martinez, in L.A. Weekly, says, "Michelle T. Clinton has written an ode to the soul of woman and man, of gay and straight, of black & brown & yellow & white-to the universal strengths and frailties of humanness."