Category - Literary Criticism

This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either ...

Vivid poems of "breakdown and spiritual disarray." Writing these, Walker says, "led me eventually into a larger understanding of the psyche, and of...

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ...

In meditative and passionate prose, these provocative essays explore feminist, environmental, and political issues and shed new light on racial deb...

These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are ...