Self-Portrait With Expletives

Divided into four sections, Self-Portrait with Expletives is a book of twenty poems demonstrating the way some American men self-consciously pursue love, friendship and art. In an age when certain heterosexual male behavioral traits are compulsory, even though obviously foolish and self-defeating, the book's language and imagery often press against conventional decorum.Frank and humiliating, velocitous and lyric, erotic and confessional, the book is a personal and public portrayal of what it means to be male in the twenty-first century.