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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light pencil annotations which could be erased. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This work came together in a slow way. Always something would get in the way-relationships ending exile loneliness some recently dis- covered pain-and I had to hurt again hurt myself all the way away from writing re-writing putting the book together. Finally I had to stop and check it out as in “what’s going on here.” And there right in front of me facing me was the reason I was having so much trouble completing this work. In the other two books I had not said very much about myself- about Gloria Jean. There was a logic to this-a strategy some thought be- hind my use of the pen name bell hooks and it was connected with feelings about representations of the self about identity. And even when people would write stuff about me that had no relationship to me things that were sometimes just not true I had no urge to explain. But in this book I was doing things differently-and what was slowing me down had to do with disclosure with what it means to reveal personal stuff. In the very con- struction of this book talking back laid out in the first essay is the ex- planation for my uneasiness my reluctance. It has to do with revealing the personal. It has to do with writing-with what it means to say things in print. It has to do with punishment-with all those years in childhood and on where I was hurt for speaking truths speaking the outrageous speak- ing in my wild and witty way or as friends sometimes say “do we have to go that deep? (LL)