Love Is a Dangerous Word The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Laozi By: Andrew Pettegree

By: Andrew Pettegree

Sybil accidentally-on-purpose blurts out that she's vacationing with her boyfriend

and adults wanting to work on their productivity

Cleavers (Galium aparine)

After being left at the altar and dropping out of medical school

Love Is a Dangerous Word The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Laozi By: Andrew PettegreeBy: Essex Hemphill Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2025 For three decades, the legacy of writer, editor, performer, and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works. They are as potent now as they were in the 1980s. With tenderness and rage, Hemphill's poems unflinchingly explore the complex, overlapping identities of sexuality, gender, and race, the American political