Alice Walker is known around the world for her fiction, poetry, essays, and human rights activism. She was honored with the 2010 Lennon Ono Grant for Peace and has been inducted into the California Hall of Fame. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"[These poems] grow as naturally on the page as grass and flowers,
yet never try to conceal a terrain of early graves, emotional land
mines, and levies of sorrow."
-- Gloria Steinem "A lifeboat in a storm, warm soup in the mouth, a
rhumba in the streets of the heart."
-- Jack Kornfield "These are powerful anthems of womanhood and age,
although just as likely to be empowering to men and to the
not-yet-old."
-- Booklist "Walker's many fans won't be disappointed by this
book."
-- Publishers Weekly "The poems sing of joy and pain, loss and
grief, love and transformation, with results that are
redemptive....Highly recommended for all readers of contemporary
poetry and for anyone interested in African American
literature."
-- Library Journal "Her poems are intimate and moving, and, like
the deepest of heart-to-heart conversations with one who knows us
well, they touch the places that hurt, acknowledge the pain, and
shine healing light on it."
-- Spirituality & Health
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