Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life

<p>San Francisco Chronicle best-seller.<br><br>Wounds of Passion is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, Bell Hooks critically reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on our lives. Resisting the notion that love and writing don't mix, she begins a fifteen-year relationship with a gifted poet and scholar, who inspires and encourages her. Writing the acclaimed book Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism at the age of nineteen, she begins to emerge as a brilliant social critic and public intellectual. Wounds of Passion describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers. Eloquent and powerful, this book lets us see the ways one woman writer works to find her own voice while creating a love relationship based on feminist thinking. With courage and wisdom she reveals intimate details and provocative ideas, offering an illuminating vision of a writer's life.</p><p><b>bell hooks</b> is the author of several books, including <i>Killing Rage</i>, <i>Bone Black</i>, and <i>Wounds of Passion</i>. She is Distinguished Professor of English at City College in New York and lives in New York City.</p><p><i>Wounds of Passion</i> is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, bell hooks critically reflects on the foundations of her writing life-the triumphs she enjoyed, the suffering she endured, the pleasures she experienced, the setbacks she overcame, and the dangers she faced.<br><br>Writing the acclaimed book <i>Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism</i> at the age of nineteen, hooks emerged earlyas a brilliant social critic and public intellectual. <i>Wounds of Passion</i> describes her subsequent struggle to devote herself to a life of writing. Eloquent and powerful, this book shows how one woman writer works to find her own voice while creating relationships based on feminist thinking.<br><br>With ample courage and wisdom, hooks reveals intimate details and provocative ideas, offering an illuminating vision of a writer's life.</p><p>I love this book. Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.-<b>Dr. Maya Angelou</b><br><br>A carefully rendered portrait of difficult love.-<b><i>Time Out New York</i></b><br><br><i>Wounds of Passion</i> is bell hook's brave memoir of struggling to find her own work, love, and independence.-<b>Gloria Steinem</b><br><br><i>Wounds of Passion</i> wraps us in a bountiful blanket of finely textured, artfully woven memories that surround our hearts, warm our souls, and comfort our minds.-<b>Julia A. Boyd, author of <i>In the Company of My Sisters</i></b></p>