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FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Callahan, John F. “Reconsideration: The Higher Ground of Alice Walker.” The New Republic 171, No. 11 (14 September 1974): 21-22.

Re-examines Walker's first two volumes of poetry, along with a novel and short-story collection, finding her work rich with tradition and beauty.

Isie, Peat. “Books about the South.” Southern Living 26, No. 12 (December 1991): 83.

Review of Her Blue Body Everything We Know, calling it a book “to be savored.”

Rosen, John. A review of Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, by Alice Walker New York Times Book Review (7 April 1985): 12.

Deems Walker's work “overpraised” in general and Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful in particular simplistic and shallow.

Williamson, Alan. A review of Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, by Alice Walker. Poetry...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Darwin Turner (review date 1976)
   2. Mary C. Williams (essay date 1978)
   3. Sam Cornish (essay date 1984)
   4. Sonia Gernes (review date 1985)
   5. James Lasdun (review date 1985)
   6. Alice H. G. Phillips (review date 1988)
   7. Thadious Davis (essay date 1993)
   8. Hanna Nowak (essay date 1993)
   9. Alice Walker with John O'Brien (interview date 1993)
   10. Fabian Clements Worsham (essay date 1996)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

1. Alice Walker
2. African-American Literature
3. How to Analyze a Poem
4. Poetry