Appalachian Elegy
Poetry and Place
by bell hooks
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Pub Date Sep 28 2012 | Archive Date May 07 2013
University Press of Kentucky | The University Press of Kentucky
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 unwelcome authority figures. One of Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life," hooks has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike.
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.
Advance Praise
"The collection reflects aesthetic and linguistic choices based on the thinking and feeling of someone who has made important contributions to contemporary thought and who thinks and feels deeply about what Kentucky – as ‘here’ and home – means to her."—Edwina Pendarvis, Professor Emeritus at Marshall University and author of Like the Mountains of China
"Appalachian Elegy has the heft and expressiveness of a unified book; it is not merely a collection of poems, but a book of poems that accumulates meaning and pathos, wisdom and grief, as it proceeds…That is a quality I desire in all poetry, and Appalachian Elegy supplies it with a kind of incantation and dance that I find deeply satisfying."—Maurice Manning
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9780813136691 |
PRICE | $21.95 (USD) |