Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985) 

Alice Walker has always turned to poetry to express some of her most personal and deeply felt concerns.  She has said that her poems - even the happy ones - emerge from an accumulation of sadness, when she stands again "in the sunlight."

 

In this fourth poetry collection, she writes about ordinary joys - a daughter's homecoming, a lover's warmth - and about poetry itself.  In spare, eloquent language, she also addresses racism, injustice, and the need to save our planet from self-destruction.

"In the tradition of Whitman, Walker sings, celebrates and agonizes over the ordinary vicissitudes that link and separate all humankind."

Sonia Gernes, America

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful has two fine strengths – a music that comes along sometimes, as sad and cheery as a lonely woman’s whistling...and Miss Walker’s own tragicomic gifts.”

The New York Times Book Review