Major Works

Poetry

Once (1968)

Revolutionary Petunias (1973)

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful (1985)

Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth (2003)

The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (2013)

Novels and Short Stories

The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970)

In Love and Trouble: Stores of Black Women (1973)

Meridian (1976)

The Color Purple (1982)

The Temple of My Familiar (1989)

Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992)

Non-fiction/Essays

"Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self" (1983)

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983)

Warrior Marks (1993)

Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism (1997)

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For (2006)

The

Cushion in the Road: Meditation And Wandering As The Whole World Awakens To Being In Harm's Way (2013)

Children's Books

Langston Hughes: American Poet (1973)

Finding the Green Stone (1991)

There is a Flower at the Tip of My Nose Smelling Me (2006)