num_pages: 96
description: This first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. “Brief slashing poems-young and in the sun” (Muriel Rukeyser).
language: English
title: Once
titlecomplete: Once
genres: Womens, Poetry, Classics, African American, Feminism, Fiction
ratings_count: 393
publisher: Harvest