Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. . - Book Shelf - book review

It's been more than a decade since Alice Walker published a collection of poetry. In Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (Random House, $22.95), she affirms the power of nature and the beauty of the human spirit. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple says she has spent the last several years believing that she probably would not write again.

Written in the shadow of the terrorist acts on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, she says in the preface that the poems "surprised her." In "The Same As Gold," she writes of grief, love and acceptance, and in "The Love of Bodies," she expresses gratitude and love for the living and the dead and the emotional connections that bind us together as human beings. In these poems that span the range of human emotions, she felt compelled to express the loss of innocence North Americans experienced since 9/11 and also the determination to survive and thrive.

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