Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Autor Alice Walkeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 feb 2004
fundamental beauty of existence, as she explores what it means to experience life fully, to learn from it, and to grow both as an individual and as part of a greater spiritual community.
About Walker’s Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, America said, “In the tradition of Whitman, Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all of humankind,” and the same can be said about this astonishing new collection, Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth.
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ISBN-13: 9780812971057
ISBN-10: 0812971051
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 131 x 204 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Rh Trade PB.
Editura: Random House Trade
ISBN-10: 0812971051
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 131 x 204 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:Rh Trade PB.
Editura: Random House Trade
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Notă biografică
ALICE WALKER won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other novels include By the Light of My Father’s Smile and Possessing the Secret of Joy. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, five previous volumes of poetry, and several children’s books. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.
Extras
I Can Worship You
I Can Worship You
I can worship You
But I cannot give You everything.
If you cannot
Adore
This body.
If you cannot
Put your lips
To my
Clear water.
If you cannot
Rub bellies
With
My sun.
The Love of Bodies
Dearest One
Of flesh & bone
There is in
My memory
Such a delight
In the recent feel of your warm body;
Your flesh, and remembrance of the miracle
Of bone,
The structure of Your sturdy knee.
The softness of your belly
Curves
My hand;
Your back
Warms me.
Your tush, seen bottomless,
Is like a small,
Undefended Country
In which is grown Yellow Melons.
It is such a blessing
To be born
Into these;
And what a use
To put
Them to.
To hold,
To cherish,
To delight.
The tree next door
Is losing
Its body
Today.
They are cutting
It down, piece
By heavy piece
Returning,
With a thud,
To The earth.
May she know peace
Eternal Returning to
Her source
And
That her beauty
Lofty
Intimate
With air & fog
Was seen
And bowed to
Until this Transition.
I send love
And gratitude
That Life
Sent you
(And her)
To spend
This time
With me.
After the bombing of 9/11, September 25, 2001
From the Hardcover edition.
I Can Worship You
I can worship You
But I cannot give You everything.
If you cannot
Adore
This body.
If you cannot
Put your lips
To my
Clear water.
If you cannot
Rub bellies
With
My sun.
The Love of Bodies
Dearest One
Of flesh & bone
There is in
My memory
Such a delight
In the recent feel of your warm body;
Your flesh, and remembrance of the miracle
Of bone,
The structure of Your sturdy knee.
The softness of your belly
Curves
My hand;
Your back
Warms me.
Your tush, seen bottomless,
Is like a small,
Undefended Country
In which is grown Yellow Melons.
It is such a blessing
To be born
Into these;
And what a use
To put
Them to.
To hold,
To cherish,
To delight.
The tree next door
Is losing
Its body
Today.
They are cutting
It down, piece
By heavy piece
Returning,
With a thud,
To The earth.
May she know peace
Eternal Returning to
Her source
And
That her beauty
Lofty
Intimate
With air & fog
Was seen
And bowed to
Until this Transition.
I send love
And gratitude
That Life
Sent you
(And her)
To spend
This time
With me.
After the bombing of 9/11, September 25, 2001
From the Hardcover edition.
Recenzii
Praise for Alice Walker’s poetry
“A sensitive, spirited, and intelligent poet. Feeling is channeled into a style that is direct and sharp....Wit and tenderness combine into humanity.”
—Poetry, about Once
“In these poems there’s the power of a mind’s concentrated passion....Walker’s language moves among griefs, loves, hopes....There’s a compassion in the poems that is not only painfully earned but has, each time, to be earned over again—and it is this that gives it its authenticity.”
—Denise Levertov, author of Life in the Forest, About Good Night, Willie Lee, and I’ll See You in the Morning
“[Alice Walker] is exceptionally brave: She takes on subjects at which most writers would flinch and quail, and probably fail. She shrinks from no moral or emotional complexity....In Walker’s work nothing is ordinary....She is a marvelous writer.”
—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, about You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
“Graceful in their spirituality, openness to experience, and rueful humor, Walker’s poems revolve around love and gratitude for the earth.”
—Booklist
“The overall effect is that of listening to a wise woman—the ‘apprentice elder’... whose gift to us is a vision of wholeness and delight in the world.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“A sensitive, spirited, and intelligent poet. Feeling is channeled into a style that is direct and sharp....Wit and tenderness combine into humanity.”
—Poetry, about Once
“In these poems there’s the power of a mind’s concentrated passion....Walker’s language moves among griefs, loves, hopes....There’s a compassion in the poems that is not only painfully earned but has, each time, to be earned over again—and it is this that gives it its authenticity.”
—Denise Levertov, author of Life in the Forest, About Good Night, Willie Lee, and I’ll See You in the Morning
“[Alice Walker] is exceptionally brave: She takes on subjects at which most writers would flinch and quail, and probably fail. She shrinks from no moral or emotional complexity....In Walker’s work nothing is ordinary....She is a marvelous writer.”
—San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle, about You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
“Graceful in their spirituality, openness to experience, and rueful humor, Walker’s poems revolve around love and gratitude for the earth.”
—Booklist
“The overall effect is that of listening to a wise woman—the ‘apprentice elder’... whose gift to us is a vision of wholeness and delight in the world.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
Descriere
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple" gives readers her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as "one of the best American writers of today" ("The Washington Post").