All that fire, lust, hurt, and ache compressed into the language of verse. The Second Coming feeds the brain as well. The Second Coming presents a thorough challenge, daring the leatherdyke community and the general readership to grow, to take in new ideas, and to learn from our own diversity. Several pieces explore just how great that diversity is. The book makes it clear that the leatherdyke world is not all rosy and united in some kind of tribal utopia.
Several essays carry on a dialogue with each other.
Authors explore their own ambivalence, too. Hello, paradigm shift. We have already lost one of the contributors. She lived as hard and as fast as she played, and she died too young. Her fiction in this book is a fine way to remember her.