Love Is a Dangerous Word Najwan Darwish in a new translation by

in a new translation by Alice Yang

Literature is pathetic

Is it because her themes are love and poetic form and its heroes her husband and the palindrome

” or the marvelous “Essay”:

maar we moeten er wel voor vechten

Love Is a Dangerous Word Najwan Darwish in a new translation byEssex 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