The world will follow joy : turning madness into flowers (new poems) / Alice Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Alice, 1944- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Historical poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

2013.

New York, New York : The New Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a "lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times), Walker imbues her poetry with evocative images, fresh language, anger, forgiveness, and profound wisdom. Casting her poetic eye toward history, politics, and nature, as well as to world figures such as Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, and the Dalai Lama, she is indeed a "muse for our times" (Amy Goodman). 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. Above all, the gems in this collection illuminate what it means to live in our world today.

Contents:

""Foreword""; ""What Makes the Dalai Lama Lovable?""; ""If I Was President""; ""From: Poems for My Girls""; ""Don�t 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?""; ""Desire""; ""March Births""; ""Two boys on a pink tricycle""; ""Coming to Worship the1,000-Year-Old Cherry Tree""; ""Listening to Bedouins, Thinking of Bob""; ""Peonies""; ""Black and White Cows""; ""Worms Won�t Need a Menu""; ""From Paradise to Paradise""; ""Sailing the Hot Streets ofAthens, 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 Buddha�s 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 Mumia�s 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""

Notes:

Poems.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-59558-887-6