I picked this up in part because the author spoke recently on campus, plus she is teaching here now. However, I also picked it up curious because the book's poems look at Appalachia, an area where I live now, so I wanted to learn a bit more. bell hooks' poetry looks at the landscape, the people, its tense history, the seasons, the coal miners, and more. The poems are short, but they are very evocative and moving at times. The author brings a lot of her personal experience as a Kentucky native to her poetry as well. It is a book I highly recommend.
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