Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems (First Edition)

Alice Walker

ISBN 10: 0151421692 / ISBN 13: 9780151421695

Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1984

About this Item

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1984. First edition. First printing (with full letter line). A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($10.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Prior owner's neat signature on front endpaper. A couple tiny closed tears on jacket (as pictured). Rear-Poetry.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems (First Edition)
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151421692
• ISBN 13: 9780151421695
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry
  • Pulitzer Prize

About this title

Synopsis

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 ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again in the sunlight. [This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman s whistling-and Miss Walker s own tragicomic gifts (New York Times Book Review).

Review

However much we like Alice Walker's fictional characters, it's still a treat when she speaks in her own voice, whether in essays or poems. The poems in this work show the impressive range that voice has, from the outrage of "First, They Said," to the quiet and lovely "These Mornings of Rain," to poems about family. Walker makes a lyrical world big enough to seamlessly weave these disparate parts together.