Gathering Blossoms Under Fire by Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire by Alice Walker

The unseen journals of Alice Walker - literary icon and author of The Color Purple

Alice Walker contains multitudesShe is a truth-telling, word-working, change-conjuring, culture-shifting, revolutionary artist and citizen of the world. These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all -- TAYARI JONES, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE

Those who know Alice Walker's body of work know that she inspired a generation of Black women writers who continue to impact America's literary landscape. And didn't so many of us read Walker to understand how to survive this place, to fight to become whole, to pull self-love to our fleshy, dark selves? And now, to read Walker's journals - decades of unfiltered musings showing us a complex person with sorrows, triumphs, flaws, and beauties - feels like witnessing a medicine moment, a griotte's testimony

-- HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS, author of THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS
Walker writes beautifully about the push and pull of intimacy . . . You find yourself admiring her idealism, her gift as a writer and her abundant appetite for life * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
[An] impressive compendium. Walker's fans are in for a treat * PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY *
An intimate glimpse into an important writer's life * KIRKUS *

ALICE WALKER, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is a canonical figure in American letters. She is the author of The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart and many other works of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Her writings have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and more than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold worldwide.

VALERIE BOYD is author of the critically acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, winner of the Southern Book Award and the American Library Association's Notable Book Award. She is founder and director of the MFA Program in Narrative Nonfiction and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is editor-at-large at the University of Georgia Press and senior consulting editor for The Bitter Southerner.

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ISBN 13	9780297608387
ISBN 10	029760838X
Title	Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
Author	Alice Walker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2022-04-12
Number of pages	560
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