Taking the arrow out of the heart [Spanish] : poems

* WINNER of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work * Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple— "an American novel of permanent importance" ( San Francisco Chronicle)— crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans. "Alice Walker, autora del Premio Nacional del Libro y ganadora del Premio Pulitzer The Color Purple -" una novela estadounidense de importancia permanente "(San Francisco Chronicle) - crea una colecci?n biling?e que es a la vez juguetonamente imaginativa e intensamente conmovedora. Presentado en Tanto en ingl?s como en espa?ol, Alice Walker comparte una colecci?n oportuna de casi setenta obras de poes?a apasionada y poderosa que atestiguan nuestros tiempos dif?ciles, al tiempo que relatan una vida bien vivida. Desde poemas de auto-indagaci?n dolorosa, hasta la simple belleza. de hornear frittatas, Walker nos ofrece una ventana a su mundo m?gico, a veces dif?cil, y liberador del activismo, el amor, la esperanza y, sobre todo, la gratitud. Ya sea que nos exhorta a preservar un para?so urbano o contemplar la delicada necesidad de la belleza de El esp?ritu, Walker, nos alienta a honrar lo divino que vive dentro de todos nosotros y trae su legendario verso libre a la p?gina una vez m?s, lo que demuestra que sigue siendo una poeta revolucionaria y una Nspiraci?n a generaciones de fan?ticos "-- Provisto por el editor "Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple--"an American novel of permanent importance" (San Francisco Chronicle)--crafts a bilingual collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving. Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy works of passionate and powerful poetry that bears witness to our troubled times, while also chronicling a life well-lived. From poems of painful self-inquiry, to celebrating the simple beauty of baking frittatas, Walker offers us a window into her magical, at times difficult, and liberating world of activism, love, hope and, above all, gratitude. Whether she's urging us to preserve an urban paradise or behold the delicate necessity of beauty to the spirit, Walker encourages us to honor the divine that lives inside all of us and brings her legendary free verse to the page once again, demonstrating that she remains a revolutionary poet and an inspiration to generations of fans"-- Provided by publisher