Her blue body everything we know : earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete / Alice Walker.
Walker brings a woman's wisdom to bear on love, life's unavoidable tragedies, blacks' struggle for equality and justice, and a world committing eco-suicide.
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San Diego :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,
[1991]
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Table of Contents:
- African images, Glimplses from a tiger's back
- Love
- Karamojongs
- 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; preferably in the northern suburbs
- The enemy
- Compulsory chapel
- To the man in the yellow terry
- The kiss
- What Ovid taught me
- Mornings/ of an impossible love
- 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.
- In these dissenting times ... surrounding ground and autobiography
- i. The old men used to sing
- ii. Winking at a funeral
- iii. Women
- iv. Three dollars cash
- v. You had to go to funerals
- vi. Uncles
- vii. They take a little nip
- viii. Sunday school, circa 1950
- Burial
- For my sister Molly who in the fifties
- Eagle Rock
- Baptism
- J, my good friend (another foolish innocent)
- View from Rosehill Cemetery: Vicksburg
- Revolutionary petunias
- Expect nothing
- Be nobody's darling
- Reassurance
- Nothing is right
- Crucifixions
- Black mail
- Lonely particular
- Perfection
- The girl who died #1
- Ending
- Lost my voice? Of course.
- The girl who died #2
- The old warrior terror
- Judge every one with perfect calm
- The QPP
- He said come
- Mysteries ... the living beyond
- Mysteries
- Gift
- Clutter-up people
- Thief
- Will
- Rage
- Storm
- What the finger writes
- Forbidden things
- No fixed place
- New face.
- The nature of this flower is to bloom
- While love is unfashionable
- Beyond what
- The nature of this flower is to bloom
- Confession
- Did this happen to your mother? Did your sister throw up a lot?
- More love to his live
- Gift
- Never off your heart to someone who eats hearts
- Threatened
- My husband says
- Confession
- The instant of our parting
- He said:
- The last time
- After the shrink
- At first
- Janie Crawford
- Moody
- Now that the book is finished
- Having eaten two pillows
- Light baggage
- On stripping bark from myself
- Early losses: A requiem
- In Uganda an early king
- Forgive me if my praises
- The abduction of saints
- Malcolm
- (In answer to your silly question)
- Streaking (a phenomenon following the sixties)
- "'Women of color' have rarely had the opportunity to write about their love affairs"
- Facing the way
- Talking to my grandmother who died poor (while hearing Richard Nixon declare "I am not a crook.")
- January 10, 1973
- Your soul shines
- Forgiveness
- Even as I hold you
- "Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning."
- Remember?
- These mornings of rain
- First, they said
- Listen
- S M
- The diamonds on Liz's Bosom
- We alone
- Attentiveness
- 1971
- Every morning
- How poems are made: A discredited view
- Mississippi winter I
- Mississippi winter II
- Mississippi winter III
- Mississippi winter IV
- Love is not concerned
- She said:
- Walker
- Killers
- Songless
- A few sirens
- Poem at thirty-nine
- I said to poetry
- Gray
- Overnights
- My daughter is coming!
- When Golda Meir was in Africa
- If "those people" like you
- On sight
- I'm really very fond
- Representing the universe
- Family of
- Each one, pull one
- Who?
- Without commercials
- No one can watch the Wasichu
- The thing itself
- Torture
- Well.
- Song
- These days
- My heart has reopened to you
- Some things I like about my triple bloods
- Telling
- Pagan
- Natural star
- If there was any justice
- Beast
- Ndebele
- We have a map of the world
- The right to life
- Armah
- The awakening
- A woman is not a potted plant
- Winnie Mandela we love you
- We have a beautiful mother
- Once, again.