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Her blue body everything we know : earthling poems, 1965-1990 complete
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.
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.
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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.
Item details
- ISBN: 9780156028615
- ISBN: 0156028611
- ISBN: 9780151400409
- ISBN: 0151400407
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Physical Description:
xvi, 463 pages ; 25 cm
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1991.
Contents / Notes
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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