Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Introduction 1
Part I Little Carlitos
Chapter 1 "Where Are You From?" Poem: "All We Have" 19
Chapter 2 Fear: Beneath the Façade Poem: "Black Boy" 43
Chapter 3 Guys' Club: No Faggots, Bitches, or Pussies Allowed Poem: "3 AM" (cowritten with Adam Falkner) 71
Part II On the Precipice
Chapter 4 Sex: Hooking Up, Making Love, and Messing Up Excerpt from solo play Man Up Monologue: "I Wanna Have More Sex vs. the Health Care Worker" 97
Chapter 5 Heroes and Villains Excerpt from solo play Man Up Monologue: "Julio" 139
Chapter 6 Going to War Poem: "Honest/Clean" 169
Chapter 7 Weakness: The Death of Superman Poem: "Saying Goodnight" 195
Part III Man Enough
Chapter 8 Finding My Voice in a Poem Poem: "What's Genocide?" 225
Chapter 9 A Knight in Tarnished Armor Poem: "Wait" (cowritten with Jeanann Verlee) 241
Chapter 10 Love Poem: "Hallelujah" 263
Chapter 11 Forgiveness: When There's Nothing Left Excerpt from solo play Man Up Monologue: "Rottweiler" 279
Epilogue Excerpt from solo play Man Up Monologue: "I Have Been, I Am, I Want to Be" 311
Acknowledgments 315
Do Something 321