| Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete Contributor(s): Walker, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 0156028611 ISBN-13: 9780156028615 Publisher: Amistad Press OUR PRICE: $24.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2004 Annotation: This anthology represents Alice Walker's complete earlier poetry, from the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africa and began the poems that would form her first collection, through her poetry of the civil rights movement and beyond. Revelatory introductions to each group of poems provide a special insight into the evolving consciousness of one of the most remarkable and provocative literary minds of our time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 90005160 |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.4" W x 8.06" (1.06 lbs) 463 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walker's complete poems, including new and previously unpublished verse, collected for the first time-with author's notes that provide historical perspective on spiritual and political issues of the last three decades. This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 9-10, Poetry) |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Alice: - 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. |