Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation…poems are a place where we can cry out.”
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 unwelcome authority figures.
In Appalachian Elegy, Bell hooks continues her work as an imagist of life’s harsh realities in a collection of poems inspired by her childhood in the isolated hills and hidden hollows of Kentucky. At once meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant volume draws the reader deep into the experience of living in Appalachia. Touching on such topics as the marginalization of its people and the environmental degradation it has suffered over the years, Hooks’s poetry quietly elegizes the slow loss of an identity while also celebrating that which is constant, firmly rooted in a place that is no longer whole.
Read Alikes for Appalachian Elegy: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte; Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
Trade paperback edition in very good condition.
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation…poems are a place where we can cry out.”
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 unwelcome authority figures.
In Appalachian Elegy, Bell hooks continues her work as an imagist of life’s harsh realities in a collection of poems inspired by her childhood in the isolated hills and hidden hollows of Kentucky. At once meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant volume draws the reader deep into the experience of living in Appalachia. Touching on such topics as the marginalization of its people and the environmental degradation it has suffered over the years, Hooks’s poetry quietly elegizes the slow loss of an identity while also celebrating that which is constant, firmly rooted in a place that is no longer whole.
Read Alikes for Appalachian Elegy: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte; Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll
ISBN 978-0-8131-3669-1
Bell Hooks
2012
