Wounds of Passion; a Writing Life [J0471]

1997 HCDJ, in Gift-Worthy condition, in a Mylar-protected jacket. With her customary boldness and insight, brilliant social critic and public intellectual, bell hooks*, traces her writer’s journey in Wounds of Passion. She shares the difficulties and triumphs, the pleasures and the dangers, of a life devoted to writing. hooks lets readers see the ways one woman writer can find her own voice while forging relationships of love in keeping with her feminist thinking. With unflinching courage and hard-won wisdom, hooks reveals the intimate details and provocative ideas of the life path she carved out of words, lighting the way for all writers who would tread in her wake. This memoir is an illuminating vision of a writer’s life from one of America’s treasured authors. “bell hooks’s brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.”―Gloria Steinem

*From Wikipedia: "Gloria Jean Watkins (1952 - 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American philosopher, educator, author, and social critic; she was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in Kentucky. Professor hooks wrote about race, feminism, and social class. Her work explored the intersections of race, capitalism, and gender, and what she described as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. Her work served as foundational to the modern idea of intersectionality."

From recent-ish Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "bell hooks commitment to truth telling is overwhelming. I know that the mango must have been so sweet. This book did a lot for me. It's a beautiful offering."; "A wonderfully written story of self discovery without being so blatantly about self discovery. I really related with hooks awkwardness felt moving through that environment."; "This memoir highlights the complexity of how love and relationships intersect with career, specifically one in writing and academia. It was interesting to see how bell hooks' relationship left its mark on a majority of her writing career, especially in discussions about how her partner both stunted and motivated her to do better."; "Such a beautiful work by Sistah bell hooks. This is a must read for any writer, lover or one who aspires to do either."