Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns. She has said that her poems-even the happy ones-emerge from an accumulation of sadness when she stands again “in the sunlight.” “[This collection] has two fine strengths-a music that comes along sometimes as sad and cheery as a lonely woman’s whistling-and Miss Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” (New York Times Book Review).