In , Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways and , are kept separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes, confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns—the cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop—he finds the charge of boundedness and signification, the implications of what it means to be a instead of a . Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives.