- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
A poetry collection of "playful and crooning lyricism" from the National Book Awardâ and Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Color Purple ( Booklist ). In this dazzling new collection, Alice Walker offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a "lavishly gifted writer, " Walker imbues her poetry with evocative images, fresh language, anger, forgiveness, and profound wisdom ( The New York Times ). Casting her eye toward history, politics, and nature, as well as to world figures such as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, she "distills struggles, crises, and tragedies down to bright, singing lessons in living with awareness and joy" ( Booklist ). By attentively chronicling the conditions of human life today, Walker shows, as ever, her deep compassion, profound spirituality, and necessary political commitments. The poems in The World Will Follow Joy remind us of our human capacity to come together and take action, even in our troubled political times. "Her spirituality, concern for human rights, and almost old-fashioned, determined joyousness run deep and her devoted readers will want to follow her as she turns 'madness into flowers'" ( Library Journal ).
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Turning Madness into Flowers #1
What It Feels Like
Before I Leave the Stage
Remember?
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword
- What Makes the Dalai Lama Lovable?
- If I Was President (âWereâ May Be Substituted by Those Who Prefer It)
- From: Poems for My Girls
- Donât Be Like Those Who Ask for Everything
- Knowing You Might Someday Come
- Turning Madness into Flowers #1
- What It Feels Like
- Before I Leave the Stage
- Remember?
- Working Class Hero
- The Ways of Water
- You Want to Grow Old Like the Carters
- The Answer Is: Live Happily!
- Word Reaches Us
- When You See Water
- This Is a Story of How Love Works
- Alice and Kwamboka
- May It Be Said of Me
- And Do You See What They Have Bought with It?
- She
- Our Martyrs
- The Tree of Life Has Fallen
- To Change the World Enough
- Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
- What Do I Get for Getting Old? A Picture Story for the Curious!
- Desire
- March Births
- Two Boys on a Pink Tricycle
- Coming to Worship the 1,000-Year-Old Cherry Tree
- Listening to Bedouins, Thinking of Bob
- Peonies
- Black and White Cows
- Worms Wonât Need a Menu
- From Paradise to Paradise
- Sailing the Hot Streets of Athens, Greece
- Life Takes Its Own Sweet Time
- One Meaning of the Immaculate Heart
- To Stand Beaming and Clapping
- And in That Sacred Time
- Why Peace Is Always a Good Idea
- Hope
- Tranquil
- The Raping of Maids
- This Human Journey
- In This You Are Wrong
- Hope to Sin Only in the Service of Waking Up
- The Part of God That Stings
- 9/11: An Irrelevant Truth
- The Buddhaâs Disagreeable Relative
- We Who Have Survived
- Racism Dates Us
- The World We Want Is Us
- The Joyful News of Your Arrest
- Every Revolution Needs Fresh Poems
- The Foolishness of Captivity
- Despair Is the Ground Bounced Back From
- Occupying Mumiaâs Cell
- Another Way to Peace
- We Pay a Visit to Those Who Play at Being Dead
- Democratic Womanism
- Democratic Motherism
- After Many Years and Much Silliness
- When I Join You
- Going Out to the Garden
- Notes
- Photo Credits