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    Once: Poems
    Once: Poems
    Once: Poems
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    Once: Poems

    By Alice Walker

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    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. Composed while she was still a student at Sarah Lawrence College in the late 1960s, these poems are already engaged with some of the moral dilemmas that have defined Walker’s entire career. Luminous vignettes from her first trip to Africa give way to reflections on the flourishing civil rights movement, while an eye for the transformative power of love and beauty run through all twenty-seven entries. Walker’s talents are prodigious, yet it’s her pure moral and aesthetic clarity that impress most in this debut work. 

    This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9781453224014
    Once: Poems
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    Alice Walker

    Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet, and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, five children’s books, and several volumes of essays and poetry. She has received the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the National Book Award, and has been honored with the O. Henry Award, the Lillian Smith Award, and the Mahmoud Darwish Literary Prize for Fiction. She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and received the Lennon Ono Peace Award. Her work has been published in forty languages worldwide.

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      It's not really possible to put a star rating on most books of poetry - Some resonate, some don't, some are for later, and some I wish I'd read years ago. One I learned by heart so will definitely take that with me, even though - or perhaps because - I've no idea what the last line means.

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    POEMS BY ALICE WALKER

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    For Howard Zinn

    Poverty was not a calamity for me. It was always balanced by the richness of light … circumstances helped me. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

    —Albert Camus, De l’envers et l’endroit

    CONTENTS

    Publisher’s Note

    African Images, Glimpses from a Tiger’s Back

    Love

    Karamojans

    Once

    Chic Freedom’s Reflection

    South: The Name of Home

    Hymn

    The Democratic Order: Such Things in Twenty Years I Understood

    They Who Feel Death

    On being asked to leave a place of honor for one of comfort

    The Enemy

    Compulsory Chapel

    To the Man in the Yellow Terry

    The Kiss

    What Ovid Taught Me

    Mornings

    So We’ve Come at Last to Freud

    Johann

    The Smell of Lebanon

    Warning

    The Black Prince

    Medicine

    ballad of the brown girl

    Suicide

    Excuse

    to die before one wakes must be glad

    Exercises on Themes from Life

    A Biography of Alice Walker

    Publisher’s Note

    Long before they were ever written down, poems were organized in lines. Since the invention of the printing press, readers have become increasingly conscious of looking at poems, rather than hearing them, but the function of the poetic line remains primarily sonic. Whether a poem is written in meter or in free verse, the lines introduce some kind of pattern into the ongoing syntax of the poem’s sentences; the lines make us experience those sentences differently. Reading a prose poem, we feel the strategic absence of line.

    But precisely because we’ve become so used

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