Love Is a Dangerous Word Style:Paperback Gunn has made a speciality

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Love Is a Dangerous Word Style:Paperback Gunn has made a specialityBy: Essex Hemphill The incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection 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