Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

By Alice Walker

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Alice Walker's 1984 collection of poems takes its title from words of the Lakota holy man Lame Deer, and reflects on her African American, Cherokee and white ancestry. The poems address love and friendship, nuclear weapons and environmental destruction, the history of racial violence and the struggles of women, and they pair personal feeling with political conviction in direct, accessible language.

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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.”