When angels speak of love Poems

bell hooks, 1952-2021

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Published
New York : Atria Books c2007.
Language
English
Main Author
bell hooks, 1952-2021 (author)
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed
Physical Description
99 p. ; 19 cm
ISBN
9780743456098
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Review by Booklist Review

With more than 20 books to her name, bell hooks is known best for her revolutionary cultural critique, powerful racial and feminist writing, and educational theory. Yet hooks has also delved into the topic of love, and in this moving new poetry collection offers brief glimpses of love in all of its stages. A truly tasty sampling, it is akin to an amuse-bouche. Exciting the senses and offering gleanings from hooks' theories of love, the tiny poems range in ingredients from the all-consuming fire of passion to lovers' cruelty to divine communion through surrender. For a woman whose radical ideas have influenced a generation or two, these poems seem strikingly old-fashioned in their evocation of a nearly Pre-Raphaelite sensibility and suggestion of simple devotion rather than romance. Yet, hooks' careful word choice and clever rhythms are refreshingly original. Like a thin broth that gets boiled down to a rich reduction, these poems offer an intoxicating essence that can thoroughly nourish readers, heart and soul. --Janet St. John Copyright 2007 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

1. love go to my heart straight beat beat alive and more alive oh time before words and i can still remember each touch all every bit tenderness only one pain a cry to make it be always endless bliss 2. in love there are no closed doors each threshold an invitation to cross take hold take heart and enter here at this point where truth was once denied Excerpted from When Angels Speak of Love by Bell Hooks All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.