Rhyheim

<p><em>Rhyheim: A Porn Poem</em> is a beautiful book of eroticism of desire and of the longing for intimacy. The book-length poem can be read as a devotional to the gay porn star Rhyheim Shabazz. The speaker a queer-of-colour poet in a majority white and straight Norway finds support inspiration and excitement in Rhyheim's porn. It is clear in Vikram Kolmannskog's writing that pornography is rooted within bodies that have histories that are themselves sites of cultural economic racial and gendered identities and experiences. The poem goes beyond this however as Vikram weaves together porn and poetry the sensual and the spiritual inviting us to be both turned on and touch compassion and wisdom.</p>