Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

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ISBN: 9780812971057 | 0812971051
Cover: Trade Paper
Copyright: 3/9/2004

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Color Purple" gives readers her first new collection of poetry in more than a decade, poems that reaffirm her as "one of the best American writers of today" ("The Washington Post").

Preface
Acknowledgments
I Can Worship You	p. 3
The Love of Bodies	p. 4
All the Toys	p. 7
Poem for Aneta Chapman on Her 33rd Birthday	p. 9
The Same as Gold	p. 15
My Friend Calls	p. 19
Coming Back from Seeing Your People	p. 21
Someone I Barely Know	p. 23
Despite the Hunger	p. 26
My African	p. 27
How Different You Are	p. 30
New House Moves	p. 33
Trapdoors to the Cellar Spring-Grass Green	p. 36
Whiter Than Bone	p. 39
Even When I Walked Away	p. 41
Red Petals Sticking Out	p. 43
Inside My Rooms	p. 44
Refrigerator Poems	p. 47
Just at Dusk	p. 48
The Moment I Saw Her	p. 49
A Native Person Looks up from the Plate	p. 52
The Anonymous Caller	p. 56
I Was So Puzzled by the Attacks	p. 58
At First, It Is True, I Thought There Were Only Peaches & Wild Grapes	p. 59
May 23, 1999	p. 61
Reverend E. in Her Red Dress	p. 62
All the People Who Work for Me & My Dog Too	p. 69
The Snail Is My Power Animal	p. 71
In Everything I Do	p. 73
The Writer's Life	p. 75
Grace	p. 78
Loss of Vitality	p. 79
Until I Was Nearly Fifty	p. 81
Thanks for the Garlic	p. 87
The New Man	p. 90
What Will Save Us	p. 92
My Friend Arrived	p. 93
Dead Men Love War	p. 97
Thousands of Feet Below You	p. 99
Living off of Isolated Women	p. 101
They Made Love	p. 102
To Be a Woman	p. 107
Thanksgiving	p. 108
The Last Time I Left Our House	p. 109
I Loved You So Much	p. 114
Winning	p. 116
Falling Bodies	p. 119
Why the War You Have in Mind (Yours and Mine) Is Obsolete	p. 123
Projection	p. 124
When You Look	p. 127
The Tree	p. 131
The Climate of the Southern Hemisphere	p. 134
Where Is That Nail File? Where Are My Glasses? Have You Seen My Car Keys?	p. 136
My Ancestors' Earnings	p. 139
My Friend Yeshi	p. 142
Ancestors to Alice	p. 146
One of the Traps	p. 148
Not Children	p. 151
You Can Talk	p. 153
Goddess	p. 154
Why War Is Never a Good Idea	p. 156
The Award	p. 165
Though We May Feel Alone	p. 166
When We Let Spirit Lead Us	p. 169
Dream	p. 170
We Are All So Busy	p. 173
The Backyard, Careyes	p. 177
Practice	p. 178
Dreaming the New World in Careyes	p. 179
Patriot	p. 182
Because Light Is Attracted to Dark	p. 184
When Fidel Comes to Visit Me	p. 189
No Better Life	p. 192
Someone Should Have Taught You This	p. 193
Dream of Frida Kahlo	p. 195
My Mother Was So Wonderful	p. 199
Aging	p. 203
Some Things to Enjoy About Aging	p. 204
Lying Quietly	p. 205
Wrinkles	p. 206
Life Is Never Over	p. 207
If They Come to Shoot You	p. 211
You Too Can Look, Smell, Dress, Act This Way	p. 215
The Breath of the Feminine	p. 219
Bring Me the Heart of Maria Sabina	p. 221
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