Let a new earth rise. Let a... by Margaret Walker, an American Poet

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“Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.”

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Margaret Walker

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Name: Margaret Walker

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Jul 7, 1915

Date of Death: Nov 30, 1998

Profession: Poet

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Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

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I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

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The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

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My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

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Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Margaret Walker

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