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...
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 ...
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that African Americans inherited from their maternal ancestors changed the way we define art, women's culture, and African American lives. By putting African American women's voices at the center of the narrative for the first time, "Everyday Use" anticipated the focus of an entire generation of black women writers. This casebook includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of Walker's life, an authoritative text of "Everyday Use" and of "In...
Alice Walker's early story, "Everyday Use," has remained a cornerstone of her work. Her use of quilting as a metaphor for the creative legacy that Afr...
From the author the New York Times Book Review calls a lavishly gifted writer, this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to submit to the tsunga s knife and be genitally mutilated leads to a trauma that informs her life and fatefully alters her existence. Possessing the Secret of Joy, out of print for a number of years, was the first novel to deal with this controversial topic and managed to do so in a manner that Cosmopolitan called masterful, honorable, and unforgettable...
From the author the New York Times Book Review calls a lavishly gifted writer, this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman fi...
This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. Brief slashing poems-young and in the sun (Muriel Rukeyser). "
This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in ...
Vivid poems of breakdown and spiritual disarray. Writing these, Walker says, led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the world. What finally marks this volume is the strong sense of change and, ultimately, of forgiveness as a part of growth. "
Vivid poems of breakdown and spiritual disarray. Writing these, Walker says, led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of the w...
'All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. I hate to be the one to tell you about the heartbreak you will experience after you die...' A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico: the writer-to-be
'All your life you have the necessary illusion that you know all there is to know about heartbreak. I hate to be the one to tell you about the heartbr...
