When Butterflies Kiss

When Butterflies Kiss is a collaboration among 10 would-be writers, each of whom contributed a chapter. It concerns the jumbled erotic misadventures of a man named Dante, and the best thing that can be said about it is that none of the women is named Beatrice. This monster's Dr. Frankenstein is someone called S kou. Along with Shange, another contributor who is also the publisher, he bears most of the responsibility for this hodgepodge of one-night stands, dreams and crude innuendo, all stitched together with clich s, sentence fragments, painful dialogue and mixed metaphors.