Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful - Softcover

Walker, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156421739 ISBN 13: 9780156421737

Publisher: Mariner Books, 1986

Synopsis

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman’s whistling-and Miss Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (New York Times Book Review).

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Review:

However much we like Alice Walker's fictional characters, it's still a treat when she speaks in her own voice, whether in essays or poems. The poems in this work show the impressive range that voice has, from the outrage of "First, They Said," to the quiet and lovely "These Mornings of Rain," to poems about family. Walker makes a lyrical world big enough to seamlessly weave these disparate parts together.

About the Author:

ALICE WALKER is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of essays and poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1983 and the National Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0156421739
• ISBN 13: 9780156421737
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96