Hard Times Require Furious Dancing - Couverture rigide

Walker, Alice

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1577319303 ISBN 13 : 9781577319306

Editeur : New World Library, 2010

Synopsis

?Though we have encountered our share of grief and troubles on this earth, we can still hold the line of beauty, form, and beat. No small accomplishment in a world as challenging as this one."? from the prefaceI was born to grow,alongside my garden of plants,poemslikethis oneSo writes Alice Walker in this new book of poems, poems composed over the course of one year in response to joy and sorrow both personal and global: the death of loved ones, war, the deliciousness of love, environmental devastation, the sorrow of rejection, greed, poverty, and the sweetness of home. The poems embrace our connections while celebrating the joy of individuality, the power we each share to express our truest, deepest selves. Beloved for her ability to speak her own truth in ways that speak for and about countless others, she demonstrates that we are stronger than our circumstances. As she confronts personal and collective challenges, her words dance, sing, and heal.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Alice Walker is known throughout the world as not only a great writer but an activist and a woman who shares the inner turmoil and outer struggles of her life. Readers admire her ability to bare her heart and soul, but also to speak out about the world as she sees it, often becoming a catalyst for change. This book came about when Walker started a website and blog and wanted to provide poetry suitable for challenging times. As the title suggests, these poems were written during struggles and sadness and deal with the loss of siblings, the loss of a beloved dog, the estrangement in families, violence and struggles on the world stage, and the simple joy of life itself. As Shiloh McCloud writes in the foreword: Alice Walker s latest collection of poems was conceived over the course of one year. Her journey includes the death of loved ones and the birth of new ideas, the sorrow of rejection and the deliciousness of love, the sweetness of home, familial abandonment and what it means to belong to the greater world family. We are witness to the characteristic self-confidence that so profoundly distinguishes Alice s work her ability to take that which is heart wrenchingly sad, share the guts of that sadness, and then, through a tapestry of richly coloured words, weave a resolution that leaves the poem with a way to be about that sorrow, not drowned under it. She does not leave the poem or the reader in distress, but soothes the aching heart of the matter with true poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New World Library
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1577319303
• ISBN 13: 9781577319306
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible