Her Blue Body, Everything We Know. Earthling Poems 1965–1990 Complete.

First edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. xvi, 463, [1, blank]. Quarter-bound brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine, over decorative paper-covered boards titled in black, blue, and white to front. Brown endpapers. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews and Trina Stahl (priced $24.95 on front flap). Stated First Edition with ABCDE to copyright page. A signed edition, limited to 111 copies, was issued concurrently.

An anthology of Walker's complete earlier poetry, including 16 previously uncollected poems, with author's prefatory notes and bibliographical references. Comprising the following collections: 'Once', 'Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems', 'Revolutionary Petunias – The Living Through', 'Crucifixions', 'Mysteries – The Living Beyond', 'The Nature of This Flower is to Bloom', 'Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning', 'On Stripping Back Myself', 'Early Losses: A Requiem', 'Facing the Way', 'Forgiveness', 'Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful' and 'We Have a Beautiful Mother: Previously Uncollected Poems'. By the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of The Color Purple (1982). "Reflects the inner journey of an extraordinary writer over 25 years of struggle. It teaches us . . . to cherish and celebrate life." –Women's Review of Books