Love Is a Dangerous Word Siel Verhanneman By far the poet's most

By far the poet's most personal work

as it loops back on itself

Het maakt niet uit haast waar je bent

in het klaslokaal en in de krantenkolommen

Love Is a Dangerous Word Siel Verhanneman By far the poet's mostEssex Hemphill For three decades, the legacy of the revered 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, Hemphills 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