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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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Publisher’s Note
- African Images, Glimpses from a Tiger's Back
- Love
- Karamojans
- Once
- Chic Freedom's Reflection
- South: The Name of Home
- Hymn
- The Democratic Order: Such Things in Twenty Years I Understood
- They Who Feel Death
- On being asked to leave a place of honor for one of comfort
- The Enemy
- Compulsory Chapel
- To the Man in the Yellow Terry
- The Kiss
- What Ovid Taught Me
- Mornings
- So We've Come at Last to Freud
- Johann
- The Smell of Lebanon
- Warning
- The Black Prince
- Medicine
- ballad of the brown girl
- Suicide
- Excuse
- to die before one wakes must be glad
- Exercises on Themes from Life
- A Biography of Alice Walker
- Copyright