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Authors: Alice Walker

Tags: #Fiction

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From
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers,
by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Ratsch (Healing Arts Press).

About the Author

ALICE WALKER won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel
The Color Purple.
Her other novels include
Now Is the Time to Open Your
Heart, By the Light of My Father's Smile, Possessing the
Secret of Joy,
and
In the Temple of My Familiar.
She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six previous volumes of poetry, including
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm,
and several children's books. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.

Also by Alice Walker

FICTION

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart
By the Light of My Father's Smile
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Temple of My Familiar
The Color Purple
You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down
Meridian
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
The Third Life of Grange Copeland

NONFICTION

Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
Warrior Marks
(with Pratibha Parmar)
Living by the Word
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

POEMS

A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Once

Copyright © 2003 by Alice Walker

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walker, Alice.
Absolute trust in the goodness of the earth: new poems /
Alice Walker.
p. cm.

PS3573.A425 A64 2003
811'.54—dc21 2002069990

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