Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

Product Description

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman’s whistling-and Miss Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (New York Times Book Review).

Amazon.com Review

However much we like Alice Walker’s fictional characters, it’s still a treat when she speaks in her own voice, whether in essays or poems. The poems in this work show the impressive range that voice has, from the outrage of “First, They Said,” to the quiet and lovely “These Mornings of Rain,” to poems about family. Walker makes a lyrical world big enough to seamlessly weave these disparate parts together.

Review

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Attentiveness
The Diamonds On Liz’s Bosom
Each One, Pull One
Every Morning
Family Of
A Few Sirens
First, They Said
Gray
How Poems Are Made: A Discredited View
I Said To Poetry
I’m Really Very Fond
If Those People Like You
Killers
Listen
Love Is Not Concerned
Mississippi Winter (1)
Mississippi Winter (2)
Mississippi Winter (3)
Mississippi Winter (4)
My Daughter Is Coming
No One Can Watch The Wasichu
On Sight
Overnights
Poem At Thirty-nine
Remember
Representing The Universe
S M
She Said
Song
Songless
These Days
These Mornings Of Rain
The Thing Itself
Torture
Walker
We Alone
Well
When Golda Meir Was In Africa
Who?
Without Commercials
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About the Author

ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.