True confessions, skinheads tattooed with angels, talking back, blood poisoning, pills, dolls, lust and loss, doctors lawyers merchants thieves, pop stars, drag queens, sestinas, sonnets, cops and truth tales. Messages of eroticism, pain, love, hope, and grace. Plush features five hot gay poets from Canada and America whose work is sublime, lush, and arresting and who share roots in theatre, activism, auto- biography, danger, and passion.