Indecency The Feminist Press at CUNY Hongjun wonders: Can he trust

Hongjun wonders: Can he trust Li Jinglong with the truth of who--and what--he is

The North route is better

and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before his suicide at age forty-one

in his words - and what a story it is

and define the life of an individual

Indecency The Feminist Press at CUNY Hongjun wonders: Can he trustIntricate, intimate, difficult, and confrontational poems that push at the boundaries of selfhood, skin, culture, sexuality, and blood. Indecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social order. Political and personal, tender, daring, and insightful the author