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tommyhousworth's review against another edition
5.0
Ms. Walker's poetry is as timely as it is powerful. This collection of verse includes tributes to Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter, The Dalai Lama, Gaby Giffords, Gloria Steinem, Miriam Mikeba, Bob Marley, Walker's own flock of chickens, and others.
More importantly, it features poems that meet us, as a nation, where we are and dares to raise our spirits, our aspirations, and ambitions. Hope is a recurrent theme here, and I, more times than I could count, eagerly looked for a highlighter so I could capture a line or verse. Sadly, this is a library copy and I can't mark it up. But the language is so poignant, so buoyant and wise, I will likely seek out a copy to own, to share, and to highlight the hell out of.
Ms. Walker makes me want to read poetry, write poetry, and live poetry. Her insights and wisdom have only ripened with age.
More importantly, it features poems that meet us, as a nation, where we are and dares to raise our spirits, our aspirations, and ambitions. Hope is a recurrent theme here, and I, more times than I could count, eagerly looked for a highlighter so I could capture a line or verse. Sadly, this is a library copy and I can't mark it up. But the language is so poignant, so buoyant and wise, I will likely seek out a copy to own, to share, and to highlight the hell out of.
Ms. Walker makes me want to read poetry, write poetry, and live poetry. Her insights and wisdom have only ripened with age.
thea_d_brown's review
4.0
I haven't picked up poetry in a while but I can't have asked for a better reintroduction. Ms. Walker's verse is masterful.
dorynickel's review
3.0
Some good ones, some bad ones. But you have to appreciate the earnestness. It's an interesting little time capsule of leftism in the 2000s, at times rigorously progressive and at others disconcertingly insipid.
raluca_p's review
2.0
“Mothering is an instinct, yes, but it is also
a practice. It can be learned. For women it
has been an eons-long experience: the art and
necessity of taking care of all, of everything,
of mothering. So perhaps the new “ism” we
are talking about is not classic Womanism,
but Motherism. Democratic Motherism.
In any case, we will continue to endure,
and detest, the systems currently in place, in
which the condition of countless starving,
tortured, enslaved and murdered children
is seen as acceptable, unless we forthrightly
begin to envision, and work for, something
better: some way for humans to exist and
thrive, without suffering the despair of every
second of every day knowing our present
predicament’s greatest cause is humanity’s
fear of sharing equally with others, and its
rapidly growing, partly because of this fear,
self-hatred.”
a practice. It can be learned. For women it
has been an eons-long experience: the art and
necessity of taking care of all, of everything,
of mothering. So perhaps the new “ism” we
are talking about is not classic Womanism,
but Motherism. Democratic Motherism.
In any case, we will continue to endure,
and detest, the systems currently in place, in
which the condition of countless starving,
tortured, enslaved and murdered children
is seen as acceptable, unless we forthrightly
begin to envision, and work for, something
better: some way for humans to exist and
thrive, without suffering the despair of every
second of every day knowing our present
predicament’s greatest cause is humanity’s
fear of sharing equally with others, and its
rapidly growing, partly because of this fear,
self-hatred.”
nadinebeanie's review
3.0
"Hope
that every failure
Is an arrow
Pointing toward
Enlightenment."
-Alice Walker
My two favorite poems in this collection are; What it Feels Like, and When You See Water. Alice Walker has such a beautiful tender soul. I came up on here when I read Temple of my Familiar. I then read her most known work the first book in a series, The Color Purple. I am happy to add this collection to my read list, and look forward to the next Alice Walker book I come across.
that every failure
Is an arrow
Pointing toward
Enlightenment."
-Alice Walker
My two favorite poems in this collection are; What it Feels Like, and When You See Water. Alice Walker has such a beautiful tender soul. I came up on here when I read Temple of my Familiar. I then read her most known work the first book in a series, The Color Purple. I am happy to add this collection to my read list, and look forward to the next Alice Walker book I come across.