Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
- ISBN-10
- 0156028611
- ISBN-13
- 9780156028615
- Category
- African American women authors
- Pages
- 463
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Alice Walker
Description
An anthology of early poetry shares a keen historical perspective on the spiritual, social, and political issues of the last three decades, in works including "Once" and "Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems." Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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