Desire Lines Rocks & Minerals before making

before making

A vague dysphoria simmers under their skin

this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses

spiritual community

Sacred intimates approach sexuality with the understanding that it's related to spirituality

Desire Lines Rocks & Minerals before makingIn Desire Lines, a Black teenager growing up gay in Brooklyn is captivated by a vision of life on the other side of the river, where the sparkle and glitter of Manhattan beckon. Coming into adulthood, he finds himself living in a five floor walk up in Hell's Kitchen just as the AIDS epidemic is hitting the city. We follow him and his group of friends as they experience the first wave of illness and death, and then accompany him on a two year journey