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    Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
    Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
    Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
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    Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems

    By Alice Walker

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    National Book Award Finalist: The love poems of an author caught up in a hopeful and sometimes violent upheaval.
      When Alice Walker published her second collection of poems in 1976, she had spent the previous decade deeply immersed in the civil rights movement. In these verses are her most visceral reactions to a moment in history that would shape the country, and that she herself influenced through words and advocacy. In hymns to ancestors, passionate polemics, and laments for lost possibilities, Walker addresses the problems of the past while keeping an eye on the possibilities of the future. Even in the midst of the call for change, these poems reveal a deep yearning for individual connection to others, as well as a deeply personal connection to nature.  
      This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateNov 22, 2011
    ISBN9781453224021
    Revolutionary Petunias: And Other Poems
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    Alice Walker

    Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, and many other works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide. 

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      While this collection of poems is not as developed as her later poems, many of the themes of family and church, particularly in the first section, resonated with me. Walker's form uses short lines and short poems.

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    Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems

    Alice Walker

    Humbly for George Jackson, who could still smile sometimes.… Whose eyes warmed to life until the end; whose face was determined, unconquered, and sweet.

    And for my heroes, heroines, and friends of early SNCC whose courage and beauty burned me forever.

    And for the Mississippi Delta legend of Bob Moses.

    And for Winson Hudson and Fannie Lou Hamer whose strength and compassion I cherish.

    And for my friend, Charles Merrill, the artist, who paints skies.

    And for Mel, the Trouper’s father, who daily fights and daily loves, from a great heart.

    Contents

    Publisher’s Note

    In These Dissenting Times … Surrounding Ground and Autobiography

    In These Dissenting Times

    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 I-VI

    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 …the Living Through

    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 / for Beanie

    The Girl Who Died #2 / for d.p.

    The Old Warrior Terror

    Judge Every One with Perfect Calm

    The QPP

    He Said Come

    Mysteries…the Living Beyond

    Mysteries

    I

    II

    III

    IV

    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

    A Biography of Alice Walker

    Publisher’s Note

    Long before they were ever written

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