I also assumed that she, like me, was a creature of the asphalts. What I didn’t know was that bell hooks was born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I recently found out that hooks wrote one of the earliest books on teaching children who black, poor and left behind. The redoubtable bell hooks, known for her work on race and feminism, also writes poetry. 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. At once meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant volume draws the reader deep into the experience of living in Appalachia. 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. One of Utne Reader 's '100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life,' hooks has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and children's books reflect her Appalachian upbringing and feature her struggles with racially integrated schools and unwelcome authority figures. 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. Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals.

Bell hooks books on education