Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Human Rights and getting it done is

and getting it done is pretty fun

An eclectic and inclusive time capsule spanning centuries

Samsa decides that she wants to have a child

6 years old

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Love Is a Dangerous Word: The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Human Rights and getting it done isFor 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.