{"title":"Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/omoionline.com\/collections\/books-magazines\" title=\"Books \u0026amp; Magazines at OMOI\"\u003eBack to all Books \u0026amp; Magazines\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"love-is-a-dangerous-word-selected-poems-of-essex-hemphill","title":"Love is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems of Essex Hemphill","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe incendiary, sensual poems of Essex Hemphill, now in a new landmark selection\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Love is a Dangerous Word contains selections from Hemphill's only published full-length collection, Ceremonies―named one of the 25 most influential works of postwar queer literature by the New York Times―alongside rarely seen poems from magazines and chapbooks. It serves as both an introduction to Hemphill’s poetic prowess and a treasure trove for those who have long awaited his return to the literary spotlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback. 192 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssex Hemphill (1957–1995) was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, DC. He was a member of the poetry collective Cinque, a frequent collaborator with the Emmy award-winning filmmaker Marlon Riggs, and the editor of the Lambda Literary Award winning anthology Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Gay Men (1991). Hemphill received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His collection Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry (1992) won the National Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual New Author Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Keene is the author of Annotations and Counternarratives, both published by New Directions. His most recent book, Punks: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems, received the National Book Award for Poetry, the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle and a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. A 2018 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Distinguished Professor of English and African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert F. Reid-Pharr is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and the author of Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique; Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual; Black Gay Man: Essays; and Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W.W. 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