Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again ?in the sunlight.? ?[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman's whistling-and Miss Walker's own tragicomic gifts? (New York Times Book Review).

About the author

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.

Summary

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman’s whistling-and Miss Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (New York Times Book Review).

Product details

• Authors: Alice Walker, Lawrie Walker
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.1986
• EAN: 9780156421737
• ISBN: 978-0-15-642173-7
• No. of pages: 96
• Weight: 4531 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM: Poetry, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Medieval, POETRY: Epic, LITERARY CRITICISM: Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM: Shakespeare, POETRY: Haiku *, POETRY: Canadian / General, POETRY: African, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / African American & Black