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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
187 kr
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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 landscape, and his own experiences as a black gay man during the HIV/AIDS crisis.Edited 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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
294 kr
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Exploring the interdisciplinary relationship between the writings of the queer, Black poet and activist Essex Hemphill and contemporary visual artAccompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Essex Hemphill: Take care of your blessings explores the interdisciplinary relationship between Hemphill's writing—raw, politically charged and deeply personal—and contemporary visual art. Titled after Hemphill's personal signature, Take care of your blessings traces his relationships with and influences on visual artists who, like Hemphill, created genre-defying works that explore race, culture, community, gender, sexuality and the experience of living with and losing loved ones to HIV/AIDS. This publication features ephemera, photographs and archival materials alongside personal reflections from Hemphill's friends and collaborators and essays that trace the dynamic poet's life, work and impact on a generation of artists.Featured artists include: Diedrick Brackens, Sharon Farmer, Lyle Ashton Harris, Isaac Julien, Clifford Prince King, Glenn Ligon, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Richard Bruce Nugent, Shikeith, Joyce Wellman.Raised in Washington, DC, Essex Hemphill (1957–95) was a poet, performer, editor and activist who emerged as a luminary in the DC arts scene in the 1980s and 1990s. His poetry challenged societal norms and bridged the worlds of literature and visual art. While Hemphill died of AIDS-related illness at just 38, his work persists, reflected in visual dialogues with his contemporaries and inheritors.