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Revolutionary petunias & other poems / by Alice Walker.

LIBRA PS3573.A425 R4 1973b
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Women's Studies Seminar PS3573.A425 R4 1973b
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Walker, Alice, 1944-
Contributor:
Thomas Lask Poetry Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Harvest book ; 252.
Harvest book ; 252
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry.
Genre:
Poetry.
Penn Provenance:
Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
10 unnumbered pages, 70 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973.
Summary:
These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. " Quick, direct, witty, pungent" (DeWitt Beall, Chicago Daily News).
Contents:
In these dissenting times ... surrounding ground and autobiography
Revolutionary petunias ... the living through
Crucifixions
Mysteries ... the living beyond
The nature of this flower is to bloom.
Notes:
"A Harvest/HBJ book."
"Cover design by Robin Forbes."
Lillian Smith Book Award, 1973
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
ISBN:
0151770905
9780151770908
0156766205
9780156766203
OCLC:
1164721

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