Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth

Alice Walker's collection of new poems, first published in 2003, was written in the months after the September 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan. The poems move between grief over violence and a steady faith in the natural world, love and human connection. Walker writes about meditation, her garden, friends and family, and political figures, calling readers back to compassion and to the earth that sustains us all.

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Hillary Clinton: “I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carré, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.”