VALLEYSPEAK, tells the story of two kids growing up in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, surrounded by a culture of sex, violence, murder, earthquakes, floods, fires, mudslides, and hope. A book of noir-inspired/-subverting poems tackling gender, whiteness, alcoholism and a childhood spent in the center of America's adult entertainment industry, VALLEYSPEAK walks the beat of SoCal's cataclysmic 90's—the L.A. Uprising, the 1994 Earthquake, the flood, the mudslides, the fires, JonBenet Ramsey, Kato Kaelin and the O.J. Simpson low-speed car chase . . . Everyone's a witness in VALLEYSPEAK, but only the poems are talking.