Description: 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 celebrating that which is constant, firmly rooted in a place that is no longer whole.
Brief description: 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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"Winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Best Poetry Award for 2013" --