sentences:  The second section details a life-changing experience in Ghana, where the protagonist goes to avoid a dying childhood friend and discovers shantytowns and an illiterate teenager who seduces middle-aged tourists and has a sexual encounter with a prostitute that ends badly.The third section is a collection of poems posing socio-political questions, among them the commodification of the tragic black male identity and the challenge facing young writers.In these poems, Rux recalls pondering "black male identity" while watching a play by Anton Chekhov with Cornel West and attending a party seated next to a dying Allen Ginsberg.