Love Is a Dangerous Word The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Laozi Mistletoe stops to appreciate the

Mistletoe stops to appreciate the beauty and peace of a snow-covered world

and volatile phoenix magic culminate in a final battle that none may survive

Joan Hargrove

the urbane Sedric

Love Is a Dangerous Word The Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill Laozi Mistletoe stops to appreciate theBy: Essex Hemphill Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2025 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