Remember -- These mornings of rain -- First, they said -- Listen -- S M -- The diamonds on Liz's bosom -- We alone -- Attentiveness -- 1971 -- Every morning -- How poems are made : a discredited view -- Mississippi winter 1 -- Mississippi winter 2 -- Mississippi winter 3 -- Mississippi 4 -- Love is not concerned -- She said: -- Walker -- Killers -- Songless -- A few sirens -- Poem at thirty-nine -- I said to poetry -- Gray -- Overnights -- My daughter is coming! -- When Golda Meir was in Africa -- If "those people" like you -- On sight -- I'm really very fond -- Representing the universe -- Family of -- Each one, pull one -- Who -- Without commercials -- No one can watch the Wasichu -- The thing itself -- Torture -- Well -- Song -- These days.

This new collection of poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet Alice Walker is characterized by a variety of themes spoken in humor, anger, and love. In spare, eloquent language Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all of humankind. She writes of the small joys of life, the blight of racism, injustice and hunger, the need to save the earth from self-destruction, and about poetry itself. "These Days" catalogs the uniqueness of the poet's friends; "Poem at Thirty-Nine" is a tender hymn to her father. In "Family Of," Walker extends and internalizes the meaning of the American Indian term, "Wasichu," signifying greed and violence. In "My Daughter is Coming," she writes about the joys of a daughter's homecoming. "Each One, Pull One" tells of the absolute necessity for the writer to write. ISBN 0-15-142169-2 : $10.95.

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