Revolutionary Petunias

Revolutionary Petunias PDF Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453224025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval. When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most visceral reactions to a moment in history that would shape the country, and that she herself influenced through words and advocacy. In hymns to ancestors, passionate polemics, and laments for lost possibilities, Walker addresses the problems of the past while keeping an eye on the possibilities of the future. Even in the midst of the call for change, these poems reveal a deep yearning for individual connection to others, as well as a deeply personal connection to nature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Revolutionary Petunias

Revolutionary Petunias PDF Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453224025
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval. When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most visceral reactions to a moment in history that would shape the country, and that she herself influenced through words and advocacy. In hymns to ancestors, passionate polemics, and laments for lost possibilities, Walker addresses the problems of the past while keeping an eye on the possibilities of the future. Even in the midst of the call for change, these poems reveal a deep yearning for individual connection to others, as well as a deeply personal connection to nature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Revolutionary Petunias

Revolutionary Petunias PDF Author: Alice Walker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780605651975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Women's Studies Quarterly (97:1-2)

Women's Studies Quarterly (97:1-2) PDF Author: Dorothy Helly
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558611719
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Book Description
Special twenty-fifth anniversary issue of the leading journal in women's studies.

Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems

Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems PDF Author: Alice Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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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).

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful PDF Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453224041
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 127

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Book Description
Poems from the author of The Color Purple: “This book has two fine strengths—a music that comes along sometimes [and] Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (The New York Times Book Review). The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible problems brought by white colonizers, nearly forgave them all because with the settlers came horses to the North American Plains. And, indeed, in these poems we find Alice Walker seeking a saving grace even in the most difficult circumstances, and in the hearts of the most brutal oppressors. Here Walker’s attention turns toward the small moments and subliminal exchanges between lovers and enemies, even as her verse addresses concerns as vast as the choking of the planet by war and pollution. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Alice Walker

Alice Walker PDF Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115164
Category : African American authors
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Book Description
Presents a biography of author Alice Walker along with critical views of her work.

A Gathering of Poets

A Gathering of Poets PDF Author: Maggie Anderson
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384681
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
A collection of poems commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the killing of four Kent State students on May 4, 1970.

Worrying the Line

Worrying the Line PDF Author: Cheryl A. Wall
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807855867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Book Description
In blues music, "worrying the line" is the technique of breaking up a phrase by changing pitch, adding a shout, or repeating words in order to emphasize, clarify, or subvert a moment in a song. Cheryl A. Wall applies this term to fiction and nonfiction wr

Southscapes

Southscapes PDF Author: Thadious M. Davis
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807835218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Book Description
In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.<

Everyday Use

Everyday Use PDF Author: Alice Walker
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813520766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.