Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful

Poems from the author of The Color Purple : “This book has two fine strengths—a music that comes along sometimes [and] Walker’s own tragicomic gifts” ( The New York Times Book Review ).  The title of this collection comes from a Native American shaman who, reflecting on the terrible problems brought by white colonizers, nearly forgave them all because with the settlers came horses to the North American Plains. And, indeed, in these poems we find Alice Walker seeking a saving grace even in t