Essex Hemphill: Love is a Dangerous Word Carrie Mae Weems And there’s Daddu

And there’s Daddu

un-learning

Ours is a century of fear

so I’m seeking a comforting home in Leeds

1984’s Subway Art (a collaboration with Henry Chalfant)

Essex Hemphill: Love is a Dangerous Word Carrie Mae Weems And there’s DadduNew Directions Publishing Corporation, 2025, softcover, 192 pages, 13. 21 x 20. 5 cm For 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