Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place

Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place

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28 Sep, 2012

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hook...

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ISBN-10:

0813136695

ISBN-13:

9780813136691

Publisher

University Press of Kentucky

Dimensions

8.51 X 5.54 X 0.26 inches

Language

English

Awards

Winner | 2013 | Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award

Description

Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to stand up against a dominating and repressive society. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and children's books reflect her Appalachian upbringing and feature her struggles with racially integrated schools and unwel

Product Details

ISBN-10

:0813136695

ISBN-13

:9780813136691

Publisher

:University Press of Kentucky

Publication date

: 28 Sep, 2012

Category

: Poetry

Sub-Category

: American - General

Format

:PAPERBACK

Language

:English

Reading Level

: All

No. of Units

:1

Dimension

: 8.51 X 5.54 X 0.26 inches

Weight

:136 g

Editorial Reviews

"Her elegy does not signal a final ending, but is rather only one part of the process of renewal and rebirth.

The koan-like rhythm of hooks' elegy tells us that even in loss there is hope and evidence of rebirth. She comes home, finding death and destruction, yet there is evidence of a cyclical process in the wildness of nature." -- Brandy Renee McCann blog

About the Author

bell hooks is the author of more than thirty books, including Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years.

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