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...