Publisher's Synopsis
In 1984, Alexis De Veaux independently published and distributed Blue Heat. Mainstream publishing' s interest in work by radical Black women was waning and De Veaux knew that she could reach women with the poems in Blue Heat directly- and she knew they needed these poems.
Forty years later, Blue Heat is a Sapphic Classic from Sinister Wisdom with a stunning new introduction and guiding exercises for engaging the poems by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. In Blue Heat, De Veaux insists on survival and encourages risk-taking. In these poems, liberation is necessary, and there is only one means to achieve it: by creating a spark. Blue Heat brings intensity akin to the deepest, hottest part of a flame. Like its namesake, this poetry collection is flammable, igniting courage in its readers, achieving De Veaux' s goal of kindling a spirit of " power, joy and change" in Black feminist communities.
