Books written by Alice Walker
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Of Women and the Essay: An Anthology from 1655 to 2000
Reprinted with the permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Annie Dillard, “Living Like Weasels,” from Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters. Copyright © 1982 by Annie Dillard. Reprinted with the permission of ...
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This Is Not A Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
Her non-fiction work The Follow was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. Who Named the Knife is an intimate portrait of her relationship as a juror with the defendant in a murder ...
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
"-WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS In her preface to this collection Alice Walker expresses surprise that she has been writing poetry for more than a quarter of a century-since the summer of 1965 when she traveled to East Africa and began writing ...
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Alice Walker: Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990
Encompassing the collections ONCE, REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS & OTHER POEMS, GOOD NIGHT WILLIE LEE I'LL SEE YOU IN THE MORNING, and HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL as well as other poems, this is a wonderful, surprising, ...
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Living by the Word: Selected Writings, 1973-1987
The author meditates on planetary, political, racial, and feminist issues; reminisces about her family, career, and travels; and describes her participation in a protest at a weapons storage station that led to her arrest.
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Once: Poems
Alice Walker’s first published book collects poems written as a student and on her first visit to Africa For readers seeking the origins of Alice Walker’s potent, distinctive voice, this collection will provide ample insight.
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Alice Walker: Living by the Word
She details the story of Dessie Woods who was sent to jail for murdering her would-be rapist and highlights the role of racism and prejudice in the law's treatment of black women.
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This Is Not A Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
But what happens if a blue ID marries a green ID? The green can't live in Jerusalem, and the blue could lose their right to live in Jerusalem if they move to the West Bank. What happens if the blue has a business and an old and sick ...
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Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Blue is your color & so it was In this dream The blue of the ocean We can see from Your green house. We were in bed Together And I was content Entwined With you. On the other side of me In the blue bed With the blue Disappearing walls ...
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret, with memories of lost loves, with lovers who have their own hard pasts and hard edges.
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The Color Purple
I say blue. I can't remember being the first one in my own dress. Now to have one made just for me. I try to tell Kate what it mean. I git hot in the face and stutter. She say. It's all right, Celie. You deserve more than this.
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The Same River Twice
A sister named Deborah Matthews, who does it for love and a living, dressed me. It was wonderful. I felt very Shuggish and quite protected by the wand. There were all kinds of people there: everyone from the movie, my sister Ruth and ...
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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
These are just a few of the seekers of dignity and love whom Alice Walker portrays in this astonishing collection. "Alice Walker is one of the best American writers of today.
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
"This is one of the healthiest collections of essays I have come across in a long time. . . . What [Walker] says about the black woman she says from the depths of oppression.
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The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker
Spanning more than three decades, this collection of fascinating discussions between Alice Walker and renowned writers, leaders, and teachers, explores the changes that Walker has experienced in the world, as well as the change she herself ...
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The Color Purple
" "San Francisco"" Chronicle """The Color Purple "is an American novel of permanent importance." "Newsweek ""Marvelous characters . . . A story of revelation . . . One of the great books of our time.
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In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
This is a collection of short stories from women in the American South.
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Everyday Use
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.
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
Here is a wise woman's thoughts as she interacts with the world today, and an important portrait of an activist writer's life. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.