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It's hard to enjoy a book of poetry when you rushed through it, but I liked several poems in this collection. Scofield's poems are aggressive, that is, they are in-your-face angry and very graphic. Drawn from personal experience, his poems are full of depictions of violence, sex, drugs, poverty, AIDS and basically the worst elements of downtown eastside that can make a reader uncomfortable, but his poems are significant in that they are about a part of our reality the middle-class white Canada has long refused to acknowledge or understand. "The Indian problem" and the other social problems of the underprivileged are too often swept under the rug of capitalism. Being a urban aboriginal homosexual, Socfield is alienated in more ways than one, and his poems reflect his alienation from various communities as well as his struggles with identity and spirituality.
6/10
