Once: PoemsThis volume contains a collection of poems by a young Alice Walker (b. 1944). The subjects are about Africa and civil rights conflict in the American South. 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 in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965 or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. |
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African Images Glimpses from a Tigers Back | 3 |
Love | 17 |
Chic Freedoms Reflection | 37 |
Copyright | |
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