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This piece by the late bell hooks was originally published in the February 1990 issue of The Women's Review of Books. Her writing and scholarship continues to shape a better world. Rest in peace and in power.
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“This was to be a book of remembrances," Diane di Prima writes in her journal-turned-memoir, as she reflects on grief, daily life, and the underground literary and art communities of the 1950s and 1960s.
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During this past summer of reflection, tragedy, and continual change, Blanche Wiesen Cook became obsessed by the works of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, l886–1961) and Bryher (Annie Winifred Ellerman, 1894–1983).
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"No, our bodies will not last forever, but the legacies we leave and the connections we build do outlive us."
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