Taking the arrow out of the heart : poems Alice Walker ; translated by Manuel Garcia Verdecia.
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TextLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Publisher: New York : 37 Ink/Atria Books, 2018Edition: First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: xxvi, 259 p 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501179525 (hardcover)Contained works: Walker, Alice, 1944- Poems. Selections | Walker, Alice, 1944- Poems. Selections. SpanishSubject(s): Walker, Alice, 1944- -- Translations into Spanish | POETRY / American / African AmericanAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Taking the arrow out of the heartDDC classification: 811.54 LOC classification: PS3573.A425 | A57 2018Other classification: POE005050 Summary: "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans"-- Provided by publisher.
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Poems were translated into Spanish by the Cuban poet and translator Manuel García Verdecia.
"Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans"-- Provided by publisher.
The poems are in English and Spanish.
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