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Alice Walker Poetry: American Poets Analysis. Alice Walker writes free verse, employing concrete images. She resorts to few of the conceits, the extended metaphors, the Latinate language, and ...
Alice Walker wrote almost all of the poems in Once when she was 21 years old (they were published later) and completed Revolutionary Petunias during her last years in Jackson, Mississippi.
Alice Walker 's poetry collection Once: Poems (1968) was her first book of poetry, and the poems it contains were composed while she was at university in Africa and the United States. The titular ...
Walker shared the poems with one of her teachers, poet Muriel Rukeyser, whose agent found a publisher for them.
Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, into a family of sharecroppers near Eatonton, Georgia. Her father, Willie Lee Walker, was the grandson of slaves. Walker’s enslaved paternal great ...
Alice Walker is by far the easier poet to describe. In a prefatory note, she writes: These poems are about Revolutionaries and Lovers; and about the loss of compassion, trust, and the ability to ...
Dive deep into Alice Walker's Once with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion
Alice Walker has published many volumes of short fiction, poetry, and essays in addition to her novels, as well as several children’s books. Walker was an early editor at Ms . magazine, in which ...
Walker, Alice (Vol. 19) Introduction. Alice Walker: 'The Diary of an African Nun' and Dubois' Double Consciousness. 'Cast Out Alone / To Heal / And Re-Create / Ourselves': Family-Based Identity in ...
“Women” by Alice Walker is a free-verse poem of twenty-seven short lines. The lines are never more than six words or seven syllables long...