Salvation: Black People and Love by Bell Hooks

Salvation: Black People and Love by Bell HooksAcclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation

One of the English language's best-loved living poets arrays before us here

the experiences of those on public works projects and the disagreements between political leaders regarding the distribution of what little food was available

as well as poems that explore darker terrains - grief

threatened

Angelou's words and Basquiat's paintings create a place where every child

creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century

It's smelly

even when they don't represent the stirred dark waters of xenophobia

The Turning of the Year explores the Celtic division of the year

For countless people

fierce as a bloodied blade'