The Maya Angelou Poetry Collection

Angelou, Maya

ISBN 10: 0375405968 ISBN 13: 9780375405969

Verlag: Random House, 1999

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The poet presents more than one hundred of her favorite works.

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<b>Maya Angelou has written five volumes of autobiography, beginning with </b><b><i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</i></b><b>, and many collections of poetry.  Dr. Angelou has received two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word recording: one for </b><b><i>On the Pulse of Morning</i></b><b>, the other for </b><b><i>Phenomenal Woman</i></b><b>.</b>

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ya Angelou read more than 100 of her best loved poems - for the first time in one collection.<br><br>"As good as Angelou's books are, you just have to hear her." - <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i><br><br><br><b>Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie</b><br>(30 minutes, 27 poems)<br>James Baldwin called Maya Angelou's first collection of poems "Black, bitter, and beautiful. [Maya Angelou] speaks of our survival.  Sister Maya has been there and back, she knows something about herself and she knows something about us . . ."<br><br><b>Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well</b><br>(35 minutes, 36 poems)<br>The poems in this second volume of Maya Angelou's poetry are eloquent evidence of the poet's continuing celebration of life.  Here are poems of love and memory, poems of racial confrontation, poems of misplaced patriotism, songs of the street and songs of the heart.<br><br><b>I Shall Not Be Moved<

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375405968
• ISBN 13: 9780375405969
• Einband: Casete de audio
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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