Excerpts from "The Thing Itself", "Every Morning", and "Torture" in HORSES MAKE A LAND- SCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL: POEMS BY ALICE WALKER, copyright © 1984 by Alice Walker , reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company, and David Higham Associates, London. Excerpts from HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL, copyright © 1984 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company, and David Higham Asso- ciates, London. Excerpt from "The Nature of This Flower is to Bloom" in REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS & OTHER POEMS, copyright © 1973 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company, and David Higham Associates, London. Excerpts from MERIDAN, copyright © 1976 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company, and David Higham Associates, London. Excerpt from "The Right to Life: What Can the White Man say to the Black Woman?" in HER BLUE BODY: EVERYTHING WE KNOW, EARTHLING POEMS 1965-1990, copyright © 1991 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company, and David Higham Asso- ciates, London. -vi- |