The book is dominated by two longer poems, "With Chaos in Each Kiss" (13 pages long) and "Naked" (10 pages); these are tender, sad poems about the aftermath of a relationship between the speaker and a musician. I was intrigued by Liu's yoking of the motifs of performing arts and love. These two poems really read like they were written by someone who has been there and experienced such love and loss.
... Also noteworthy is "The Size of It," a poem about body image, homosexuality, and Asian male identity; this poem has a flavor of painful honesty.
Even when at his most graphic and in-your-face, Liu writes with a poetic voice that is appealingly tender and gentle. I love his line, "Only love can make us visible" (from "With Chaos in Each Kiss"). Liu is definitely a poet worth exploring, and his work is a valuable contribution to American poetry, gay literature, and Asian-American literature. For an interesting complementary text, try Allen Ginsberg's "Cosmopolitan Greetings."