Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful [Hardcover]

Alice Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1988

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).

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Editorial Reviews

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

1971
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
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 79 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 1st edition (September 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151421692
• ISBN-13: 978-0151421695
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #527,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alice Walker is one of the most prolific writers of our time, known for her literary fiction, including the Pultizer Prize-winning The Color Purple, her many volumes of poetry, and her powerful nonfiction collections. Walker's most recent book is The Chicken Chronicles, a memoir. Her advocacy for the dispossessed has spanned the globe. She lives in Northern California.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!!!!, April 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (Paperback)

All I can say is wonderful!!! This is one of my very favorite books. Being white,I have not always been as non-racist as I should have. This book will make you look at things in a whole new way, as Alice Walker explores her feelings of Africa, Love, Poetry, Predujust, and the leftover tears of blacks. Hold on. Surely the Earth can be saved for us who insist on love.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars dull, March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (Paperback)

I was rather diappointed in this collection. A few of the poems are very nice, but overall the work is bland and dull. The language is so pedestrian. This seems like a real half-hearted attempt at writing. I am sure Walker can do better.