High risk 2 Book

Compiled by the same editors who brought you High Risk, this daring new anthology introduces us to 22 writers who give voice to an array of challenging issues today. The late activist Craig G. Harris fires the opening salvo with an angry lament about living and dying with AIDS that shimmers with rage and energy. In white-hot, fragmented prose that careens across the page, Darryl Pinckney offers snapshots from the life of a drug-addicted pre-op transsexual. Diamanda Galas's librettos are haunting calls to conscience; Sapphire's depictions of urban violence are fierce and chilling. And Leslie Dick's contemplative piece on suicide brings the collection to an eerie and memorable close. With pieces on violence, mortality, sex for money, sex for drugs, sex for revenge, and the disintegration of the body, High Risk 2 offers perverse and profound ways of looking at the world today.

An uncompromisingly truthful, unfailingly adventurous companion to the hugely successful High Risk, this daring and provocative collection of short fiction includes pieces on AIDS, urban violence, sex for money, drugs, and revenge, and suicide, among other topics, offering perverse yet profound ways of looking at the world today.