Love Is a Dangerous Word Anthony Anaxagorou The Crystal Text refuses to

The Crystal Text refuses to resolve the questions it raises but rather inhabits its various possibilities simultaneously

and Cecilia Vicuña cites the Tao Te Ching

Small incidents of the day revive some of the oldest preoccupations of the novel: the force of social circumstance

is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American Lyric' form which makes her Forward Prize-winning collection Citizen so distinctive: an original combination of poetry

Love Is a Dangerous Word Anthony Anaxagorou The Crystal Text refuses toEssex 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