"Few taboos are left to incorporate into the literature of the gay world. Nearly everything has been said, sensationalized, exploited, done and redone, sometimes well, sometimes self-indulgently. But one taboo, sex between adults and children, has received little attention from serious writers for a very good reason: most people, gay or otherwise, find it morally repugnant. Incredibly, Jean-Paul Daoust has turned a relationship of this kind into hypnotic poetry. The book is unique in its sensitivity to a universe of forbidden love and sex between a man in his early twenties and a boy of six and a half years. The boy's age is used like a leitmotif, recurring on nearly every page of the poem, as though to remind the reader of how unique the experience is, whether between straight persons or gay. Because of the critical age difference between manhood and childhood, it is not 'just another love story.' It is an epic melodrama of passion, love, betrayal and cruelty that is related here in obsessive, often hallucinatory poetry, but more importantly, it is all seen through the eyes of a child who is not only a victim as we might readily suppose, but an aggressor as well. Gay literature will never be the same after this book" - Daniel Sloate.

Words; they're deep enough to drown you, sharp enough to hit you, mellow enough to melt you.Blue Ashes, a chapbook, consists of poems reflecting intricacies of emotions we all experience. In a world of wanderers, it attempts to bring to all a new world to travel to. Take out a moment to disappear into your world, to read what you love, to do what you want to do. Using metaphor as a tool to express the intensity and magnitude of feelings, Blue Ashes highlights love, grief, pain, loss, and the wandering individual in every person.

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