Straight razor

Bawdy yet elegant poems depicting the debaucheries and traumas of growing up amid San Francisco's gay scene. Randall Mann combines the regal and ribald, his ear for poetic form matched by his unrelenting eye for lasciviousness, in this fetching chronicle of oversexed youth. "Craft and bravura mix well...Mann shows himself [Thom Gunn's] apt pupil...The clarity startles." -Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times