By bell hooks
Author, activist, feminist, instructor, and artist bell hooks is well known as one of many nation's prime intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her targeted pseudonym from the identify of her grandmother, an clever and strong-willed African American lady who encouraged her to face up opposed to a dominating and repressive society. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and kid's books replicate her Appalachian upbringing and have her struggles with racially built-in colleges and unwelcome authority figures. considered one of Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Can switch Your Life," hooks has received vast acclaim from critics and readers alike. In Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks maintains her paintings as an imagist of life's harsh realities in a set of poems encouraged by way of her adolescence within the remoted hills and hidden hollows of Kentucky. right away meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant quantity attracts the reader deep into the event of dwelling in Appalachia. concerning such subject matters because the marginalization of its humans and the environmental degradation it has suffered through the years, hooks's poetry quietly elegizes the gradual lack of an id whereas additionally celebrating that that's consistent, firmly rooted in a spot that's now not whole.
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Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place (Kentucky Voices) by bell hooks
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