This is Not About Love: Poems Format:Paperback But one afternoon on the

But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school

Du Bois from the NAACP's magazine the Crisis after being arrested for a homosexual encounter

knowing someone was gay and not reporting it warranted tortuous sentences if not death

around for several decades

This is Not About Love: Poems Format:Paperback But one afternoon on theKrystal A. Smith's bold new work explores the depths of our most revered human emotion: love. This is Not About Love: Poems explores the complexities of our capacity or inability to love via memory, experience, and imagination. Smith reminds us that love is not a singular emotion, and romantic relationships may not be the only path happiness.