Taking The Arrow Out Of The Heart

  • Author: Alice Walker
  • Narrator: Alice Walker
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 2:18:21
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Synopsis

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry

Alice Walker, author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple—“an American novel of permanent importance” (San Francisco Chronicle)—reads the English-language editions of the poems in her new bi-lingual collection, a collection that is both playfully imaginative and intensely moving.

Alice Walker shares a timely volume 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.

Chapters

  • 021 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart DancingShack

    Duration: 02min
  • 022 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart TheCircle

    Duration: 02min
  • 023 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart TheKingHasGoneAwayForGoodLongLiveTheKing

    Duration: 03min
  • 024 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart WelcomeToThePicnic

    Duration: 03min
  • 025 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart TheLesson

    Duration: 54s
  • 026 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart AllTheFastCarAdsLookCrazyNow

    Duration: 02min
  • 027 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart LightACandle

    Duration: 01min
  • 028 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart My121212

    Duration: 04min
  • 029 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart AndInTheRedBox

    Duration: 36s
  • 030 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart YouWereSixteen

    Duration: 49s
  • 031 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart FullnessOfHeart

    Duration: 01min
  • 032 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart AloiseaInyumbaPresente

    Duration: 04min
  • 033 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart IConfessIDoNotUnderstandTheMindThatNeedsToCauseThisSuffering

    Duration: 01min
  • 034 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart NotFromHere

    Duration: 03min
  • 035 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart IAmTellingYouDiscouragedOneWeWillWin

    Duration: 01min
  • 036 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart WeAreNeverWithoutHope

    Duration: 52s
  • 037 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart TheGoodOnes

    Duration: 02min
  • 038 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart WhatDoesItTakeToBeHappy

    Duration: 01min
  • 039 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart LaterWeWouldMissYouSoMuch

    Duration: 04min
  • 040 TakingTheArrowOutOfTheHeart NecksOfClay

    Duration: 39s
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