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Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780156766203 |
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. "Quick, direct, witty, pungent" (DeWitt Beall, Chicago Daily News).
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1453224025 |
National Book Award Finalist: The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval. When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most visceral reactions to a moment in history that would shape the country, and that she herself influenced through words and advocacy. In hymns to ancestors, passionate polemics, and laments for lost possibilities, Walker addresses the problems of the past while keeping an eye on the possibilities of the future. Even in the midst of the call for change, these poems reveal a deep yearning for individual connection to others, as well as a deeply personal connection to nature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : |
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers - about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. "Quick, direct, witty, pungent" (DeWitt Beall, Chicago Daily News).
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1453224041 |
Poems from the author of The Color Purple: “This book has two fine strengths—a music that comes along sometimes [and] Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (The New York Times Book Review). The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible problems brought by white colonizers, nearly forgave them all because with the settlers came horses to the North American Plains. And, indeed, in these poems we find Alice Walker seeking a saving grace even in the most difficult circumstances, and in the hearts of the most brutal oppressors. Here Walker’s attention turns toward the small moments and subliminal exchanges between lovers and enemies, even as her verse addresses concerns as vast as the choking of the planet by war and pollution. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Maggie Anderson |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780873384681 |
A collection of poems commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the killing of four Kent State students on May 4, 1970.
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2011-11-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1453224017 |
Alice Walker’s first published book collects poems written as a student and on her first visit to Africa For readers seeking the origins of Alice Walker’s potent, distinctive voice, this collection will provide ample insight. Composed while she was still a student at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1960s, these poems are already engaged with some of the moral dilemmas that have defined Walker’s entire career. Luminous vignettes from her first trip to Africa give way to reflections on the flourishing civil rights movement, while an eye for the transformative power of love and beauty run through all twenty-seven entries. Walker’s talents are prodigious, yet it’s her pure moral and aesthetic clarity that impress most in this debut work. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author | : Alice Walker |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1973 |
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ISBN | : 9780605651975 |
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0307430561 |
In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us to feeling and understanding, with poems that cover a broad spectrum of emotions. With profound artistry, Walker searches for, discovers, and declares the fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to experience life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community. About Walker’s Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, America said, “In the tradition of Whitman, Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all of humankind,” and the same can be said about this astonishing new collection, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth.
Author | : Alice Walker |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780156028615 |
Walker brings a woman's wisdom to bear on love, life's unavoidable tragedies, blacks' struggle for equality and justice, and a world committing eco-suicide.
Author | : Desiree C. Bailey |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0300256531 |
The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets is a lyrical and polyvocal exploration of what it means to fight for yourself “Bailey invites us to see what twenty-first-century life is like for a young woman of the Black diaspora in the long wake of a history of slavery, brutality, and struggling for freedoms bodily and psychological.” —Carl Phillips, from the Foreword The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C. Bailey begins by reworking the epic in an oceanic narrative of bondage and liberation in the midst of the Haitian Revolution. The poems move into the contemporary Black diaspora, probing the mythologies of home, belief, nation, and womanhood. Series judge Carl Phillips observes that Bailey’s “poems argue for hope and faith equally. . . . These are powerful poems, indeed, and they make a persuasive argument for the transformative powers of steady defiance.”