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Some of these poems previously appeared in Freedomways, Harper’s, Essence, and Black World.
copyright © 1971, 1972, 1973 by Alice Walker
cover design by Milan Bozic
978-1-4532-2402-1
This edition published in 2011 by Open Road Integrated Media
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