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Women
Alice Walker
1973
Introduction
Alice Walker's poem Women
was written in 1970 and first published in her second volume of poetry Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (1973), in a chapter titled In These Dissenting Times.
Women
celebrates the African American women of earlier generations, those who struggled and made sacrifices and whose efforts benefited the women of Walker's generation. Walker uses Women
to honor the women of her mother's generation and to remind her readers that a woman's success is also measured by the hard work of her ancestors. This poem is Walker's attempt to keep alive the memories of these earlier women, as an inspiration to later generations. Women
is a twenty-six-line, free verse poem, with short lines consisting of only one to five words and no punctuation until the concluding line, when the one-sentence poem ends with a period. Women
was included in Walker's 1974 essay, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,
which was later included in a collection of her essays, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, published in 1983. Walker also included the poem in Her Blue Body Everything We Know; Earthling Poems, 1965-1990 Complete, published in 1991.
Author Biography
Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, on February 9, 1944. She was the youngest of eight children born to Winnie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah Grant Walker. Walker's parents were sharecroppers, and while the family was poor, Walker describes her childhood as happy until a BB gun accident at age eight, when Walker was accidentally shot in the right eye by one of her brothers. The damage caused a scar and resulted in significant teasing at school, causing Walker to be withdrawn and to isolate