01104cam a2200241 4500 2357478108 TxAuBib 20010213120000.0 890308s1973||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780156766203 0156766205 (OCoLC)1164721 Library/Resource Center TxAuBib Walker, Alice, 1944- Revolutionary petunias & other poems [BOOK] / Walker, Alice, 1944-. [1st ed. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. 70 pages ; 21 cm. These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad." Quick, direct, witty, pungent" (DeWitt Beall, Chicago Daily News). 20010313. Lillian Smith Book Award, 1973. American poetry African American authors.