Collected Poems: Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990, by Alice Walker

Alice Walker has been writing poetry since the summer of 1965, when she travelled to East Africa and began the collection Once while sitting beneath a tree facing Mount Kenya.

Encompassing the collections Once, Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems, Good Night Willie Lee I'll See You In The Morning, and Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful as well as other new poems, this is a wonderful, surprising, entertaining collection. More than just an anthology, the Collected Poems offers a historical perspective on the evolution of both the poetry itself and the political and spiritual inspiration behind it – a window into the evolving consciousness of one of the most remarkable and provocative literary voices of our time.