Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill – from an interview with

– from an interview with Ian Whittlesea on artcornwall

Following on from Midweek Recipes

Published by Tenderbooks

Marijke Van Wanderdam / SECOND / 2014

This issue has contributions from Jakob Jacobsen

Love is a Dangerous Word: the Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill – from an interview withFor 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 landscape, and his own experiences as a black gay man during the HIV AIDS crisis.