Love Is a Dangerous Word Amanda Paradise Vivek Narayanan

Vivek Narayanan

An enchanting roll of duct tape

the book culminates in a centerpiece series of "Tiananmen Sonnets" to conjure up the irrepressible past

She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso

Love Is a Dangerous Word Amanda Paradise Vivek NarayananEssex 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