The Americas
Both Mother
& Father
Grandmother
& Grandfather
Guiding Spirit
Of this
Place.
1 From Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers, by Richard Evans Schultes, Albert Hofmann, and Christian Ratsch (Healing Arts Press).
About the Author
ALICE WALKER won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel The Color Purple. Her other novels include Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, By the Light of My Father’s Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and In the Temple of My Familiar. She is also the author of three collections of short stories, three collections of essays, six previous volumes of poetry, including A Poem Traveled Down My Arm, and several children’s books. Born in Eatonton, Georgia, Walker now lives in northern California.
Also by Alice Walker
FICTION
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart
By the Light of My Father’s Smile
Possessing the Secret of Joy
The Temple of My Familiar
The Color Purple
You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down
Meridian
In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
The Third Life of Grange Copeland
NONFICTION
Sent By Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit
Anything We Love Can Be Saved
The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult
Warrior Marks (with Pratibha Parmar)
In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
POEMS
A Poem Traveled Down My Arm
Her Blue Body Everything We Know
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful
Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning
Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems
Once
Copyright © 2003 by Alice Walker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walker, Alice.
Alice Walker.
p. cm.
PS3573.A425 A64 2003
811’.54—dc21 2002069990
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