Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems
“For most of the years I have been writing poetry I have envied musicians. Only musicians, it seemed to me, were always at one with their creations. But lately I see that poetry,…
Book: Temple of My Familiar
OVER FOUR MONTHS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters, all dealing in some…
Book: To Hell with Dying
Synopsis: For a happy few of us there is the good fortune of having had a Mr. Sweet in our childhood. Someone who erases the boundaries between children and adults, whose praise makes…
Living By the Word
“An extraordinarily diverse collection…” New York Times Living By the Word is a memorable collection of essays, letters and journal extracts from Pulitzer Prize Winner, Alice walker. In her immaculate prose, Alice Walker…
Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful
In Alice Walker’s fourth collection of poetry, simple observations from a life well lived balance an unflinching examination of critical global worries The title of this collection comes from a Native American…
In Search of Our Mothers’ Garden: Womanist Prose
This collection of essays is a unique celebration of women’s stories and spirituality through the ages. Alice Walker traces the umbilical thread linking women writers through history – from her discovery of Zora…
The Color Purple
Reviews from the 1983 National Book Awards Anna Clark writes: I picked up my copy of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple to jog my memory of it for this review. I found…
You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
A natural evolution from the earlier, much acclaimed short story collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated. No longer do they excuse…
Goodnight, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning
Walker’s third collection of poetry takes its title from her mother’s farewell words to her father at his funeral. These words are the frame for a volume whose major theme is the connections…
Book: Meridian
As the old rules of Southern society collapse, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity – and that of all her people. “A glowing affirmation of the possibility …of love…
Revolutionary Petunias
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…
