Revolutionary petunias & other poems.

These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad." Quick, dire...

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Main Author: Walker, Alice, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1973]
Edition:[First edition].
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505 0 0 |t In these dissenting times ... surrounding ground and autobiography --  |t Revolutionary petunias ... the living through --  |t Crucifixions --  |t Mysteries ... the living beyond --  |t The nature of this flower is to bloom. 
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