Relentless, contradictory, and spitting with emotion, Noel Martin's debut title Aphrodite's Drink Order explores lover's worship, thievery, and substance abuse confusions. Its poems span the miles between San Diego, California and Rockaway Beach, New York City, discovering conflict in childhood nostalgias and coming to adulthood with a girl's bias. Nodding goodbye to the end of teenagehood through fucked up cliches of intimacy and self implemented exposure therapy, Martin is short winded and strong witted. Aphrodite's Drink Order wades in the sea between surrealist navel-gazing daydreams and the reality of playing with knives.