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).
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Best-selling novelist ALICE WALKER is the author of five other novels, five collections of short stories, six collections of essays, seven volumes of poetry, including the most recent Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, and several children’s books. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages.
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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.
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Not To Worry About Love,
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I actually purchased the book for one poem with the title of my reviw as a part of it, but ended up reading the entire book from cover to cover several different times without being able to put it down. Needless to say Alice Walker is now my favorite poet, and her writing certainly captures my attention. To merely highly recommend this book does her and this book an enormous disservice. Down Pat
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I shall write of the old men I knew And the young men I love And of the gold toothed women Mighty of arm Who dragged us all To church. Read the first page New!
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- Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987 by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful by Alice Walker in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Alice Walker (MCV) (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom on page 70
- Finding the Green Stone by Alice Walker in Front Matter
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- Alice Walker: Critical Perspectives Past And Present (Amistad Literary Series) by Henry L. Gates on 25 pages
- Critical Essays on Alice Walker: (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Ikenna Dieke on 14 pages
- Everyday Use (Women Writers) by Alice Walker on 12 pages
- Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture) by Cheryl A. Wall on 6 pages
- Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition (Gender and American Culture) by Cheryl A. Wall on 6 pages
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