Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon

The worlds we occupy ourselves withare not real. The Russians in the ringare not Russian; their pal mincingaround with his silk scarves and boas has never taken another mans penisinto his mouth. The act is convincingthough theres nothing worth takingshame in. We revel in the same things.We know the secret language of fleshand musculature. Some of us speakit in tongues of sweat and oil.Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon collects poems and comic strips about sex and gender as viewed through the lens of professional wrestling. In poems written to or about wrestlers like Junkyard Dog Roddy Piper Ox Baker The Ultimate Warrior The Rock and CM Punk Colette Arrand teases out the homoerotic roots of wrestling and how its warped cartoon masculinity plays itself out over the course of a fans life.