• Three of five prior collections recognized by Lambda Literary
  
• Celebrates and spans Mann’s thirty year career by compiling one of the most influential multiracial LGBTQ+ poet’s essential works for the first time in one volume
  
• 21 New poems, 67 Selected poems (~24% poems are new)
  
• Poetry parallels the Covid-19 and AIDS pandemics in a timely, responsive, and educational social commentary
  
• Regional appeal to Mann's childhood Floria and adult San Francisco, particularly in a time of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill
  
• Exemplary contemporary poet of formal craft, rhyme, and meter
  
• Potential audiences: readers of LGBTQ+ literature, BIPOC voices, and/or activism poetry; fans of American history and politics; readers from Florida or San Francisco, poets and educators invested in traditional and experimental poetic forms