Blue Heat: A Portfolio of Poems and Drawings

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 e...