Poetry. La Loca is known as an impressive performance poet, but these poems are also superb on the page. Energetic, honest and compelling, these rants, confessions and misadventures are funny and touching, and flawlessly construct (and deconstruct) 1980s L.A. "I Received this Woman's Intimacies," wherein the poet visits her "ex-lover's mother's house/ three days after his father's passing" is the standout, with its primal themes of sex, death and human connection. Stunning.