Sweet Sweat

Shane Allison has taken the most intimate pages of countless gay men’s secret, private journals, fed them to a shredder, emptied millions of scraps on the floor, and arranged the words into a collection of super direct, candid poems capable of causing readers to blush, breathe heavier, reminisce on their own experiences, get excited and/or seek out the next best debauched moment that will leave legs shaking. There are moments that will make you snicker or laugh out loud, and there are darker moments that will have questioning your limits, what you are capable of, moments that will remind you how rotten our world is–and why we need some relief.