Love Is a Dangerous Word Najwan Darwish "Whiplashed by its hot panache

"Whiplashed by its hot panache

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Is it because her themes are love and poetic form and its heroes her husband and the palindrome

Love Is a Dangerous Word Najwan Darwish "Whiplashed by its hot panacheEssex 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