Love Is a Dangerous WordEssex 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

’ Zo gaat ze de dreiging te lijf van het zogenoemde imperium dat ontgint

Lucas Rijneveld zoekt in zijn gedichten de ruimte van een weiland of de zee - maar ook die van een flat of dodemanshoek

Peter Holvoet-Hanssen

Over het verlangen te vallen

In 2014 verscheen zijn lovend besproken dichtbundel Weg van Damascus

Tweetalige uitgave Engels/Nederlands

she left behind a body of work which had already

and rituals of bereavement

empirical approach to the future of poetic form

but across them they chart

the American poet and playwright whose name has been all but erased from literary history

waar autobiografie en droom op een vaak verontrustende manier met elkaar zijn verweven