“Sweet Sweat will blow your brains out. Shane Allison has taken the most sex-filled pages, and a fair share of the everyday and out of the ordinary (including being evacuated from an apartment building during the attacks of 9/11), of countless gay men’s secret, private journals, fed them to a shredder, emptied millions of scraps on the floor, and then arranged the words into a collection of super direct, candid poems capable of causing readers to blush, breathe heavier, reminisce one’s own experiences, get hard or wet, and/or seek out the next best debauched moment that will leave legs shaking.”