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Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry

by Essex Hemphill · 1992

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Ceremonies offers provocative commentary on highly charged topics such as Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of African-American men, feminism among men, and AIDS in the black community.

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adult
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medium · 200 pages
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