The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

Great book.

I am not sure what I Enjoy more....reading Ms. Angelou's well crafted poems or hearing her own iconic voice reading them. In either case I do not feel you will be disappointed in this true American master of her craft.

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou was published in 1994. When reading Maya Angelou’s poems I hear her voice in my head. When she read her poems she brought them to life for me. I love the rhythm and rhyme of her poems but also the story or narrative poems. Her poetry of slave and work songs she uses a personal narrative and emphases on the individual response to hardship, oppression and loss. She once said “Once I got into it I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglas-the slave narrative speaking in the first-person singular talking about the first-person plural, always saying I meaning ‘we’. And what a responsibility. Trying to work with that form, the autobiographical mode, to change it, to make it bigger, richer, finer, and more inclusive in the twentieth century has been a challenge for me.” The book is divided into a collection of love poems, slavery and work poems, and poems about the fight for equality-civil rights of the 50-60’s. It contains a few of my favorite poems, “And Still I rise”, I know why the Caged Bird Sings”, Phenomenal Women. And it also has “On the Pulse of Morning” the poem she wrote for President William Clinton’s inauguration. This is a book I will keep forever to read or and over again.

Excellent collection

This book is a great book, especially for me because I am a Maya Angelou fan. There are so many of her great poems in here and I am still reading them. The only thing is the book felt a little sticky (bought it used) so I am going to buy it again brand new fixing that problem. I would definately recommend this book, as there are a lot of poems in here that are filled with inspiration, insight, and perspectives of life.

po·et·ry. [ˈpōətrē]NOUN1.literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature:You don't have to like it. It's for the people that it speaks to, and if it doesn't speak to you, find something that does. To say it wasn't my cup of tea is one thing, but to declare something bad because it wasn't done to your specifications says that you don't have the soul for art. You don't have the creativity mind to understand subjectivity. Art is subjective.I personally love many if not most of these poems. Some of them I connected with right away and others didn't carry meaning until I was older. There are even some that were not for me, but they were no less art than the ones that did.

high quality, both for papers and cover

After following the Olympics ardently . . . and the beautiful reading of her poem throughout . . . this poem and the poetry for Ms. Angelou stuck a deep chord for a close friend's heart and he stated he would like to have a copy of her poetry. It became a best-birthday present and for this I am very thankful.

Para quem gosta de poesia, ler Maya Angelou é indescritível, as forças nas palavras e ainda uma gentileza que só ela tinha, com certeza uma obra prima. Obs: o livro está em inglês.

This is a very special collection of poetry, by a n incredibly insightful and gifted writer. Somehow she is able to wield her pen at words, and command composition to form, create and repair. She does so with the precision of a surgeon and the flair of a conductor.Excellent.

Amazing. Recomending these

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As a French student i needed this book for my lectures, a hard book to find but finally found it in a really good shape and for a very reasonnable price.The shipping was fast and the book well packed.