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Author:

Walker, Alice, 1944-

Title:

The cushion in the road : meditation and wandering as the whole world awakens to being in harm's way / Alice Walker.

Publisher:

The New Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 365 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American essays.

Other Titles:

Essays. Selections

Contents:

On Barack Obama -- The road of life -- The settled mind -- "This is what you shall do" -- Letters -- On Palestine -- Onward.

Summary:

Essays revisiting themes the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist, and activist has addressed throughout her career, exploring her conflicting impulses to retreat into inner contemplation and to remain deeply engaged with the world: racism, Africa, solidarity with the Palestinian people, the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Cuba, health care, and the work of Aung San Suu Kyi.

ISBN:

1595588728 (hbk.)
9781595588722 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)807025097

LCCN:

2012041852

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)