Once : poems / by Alice Walker.

Alice Walker's first collection of poetry, which addresses such topics as civil rights, the South, love, and Africa as viewed by an African American woman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Alice, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1968]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.