Soho by Richard Scott Shearsman —Gregory O’Brien

—Gregory O’Brien

emotional complex in an instant of time’

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Soho by Richard Scott Shearsman —Gregory O’BrienIn this intimate and vital debut, Richard Scott creates an uncompromising portrait of love and gay shame. Examining how trauma becomes a part of the language we use, Scott takes us back to our roots: childhood incidents, the violence our scars betray, forgotten forebears and histories. The hungers of sexual encounters are underscored by the risks that threaten when we give ourselves to or accept another. But the poems celebrate joy and tenderness,