Product Description

For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8956 in Books
• Published on: 1994-09-13
• Released on: 1994-09-13
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780679428954
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Amazon.com Review
Brought together for the first time here are all of Maya Angelou's published poems -- including "On the Pulse of Morning," her inaugural poem -- in a handsome hardcover edition.

From Library Journal
From her earliest collection of poetry (Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie, LJ 10/15/71) to her latest (On the Pulse of Morning, delivered at the inauguration of President Clinton on January 20, 1993), Angelou's work never fails to grip the imagination. In this anthology, she comments on love, traveling, and aging.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
Accident
Africa
After
Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, And Mayfield
Ain't That Bad
Alone
America
Amoebaean For Daddy
Arrival
Artful Pose
Avec Merci, Mother
Awaking In New York
Black Ode
Born That Way
Brief Innocence
Bump D'bump
Caged Bird
California Prodigal
Call Letters: Mrs. V.b.
The Calling Of Names
Changes
Changing
Chicken-licken
Child Dead In Old Seas
Coleridge Jackson
Come, And Be My Baby
Communication 1
Communication 2
A Conceit
Contemporary Announcement
Country Lover
The Couple
The Detached
Elegy
Equality
Faces
Family Affairs
Fightin' Was Natural
For Us, Who Dare Not Dare
Forgive
The Gamut
A Georgia Song
Glory Falls
A Good Woman Feeling Bad
Greyday
Harlem Hopscotch
The Health-food Diner
Here's To Adhering
How Can I Lie To You
Human Family
I Almost Remember
Impeccable Conception
In A Time
In My Missouri
In Retrospect
Insignificant
Insomniac
Is Love
John J.
Junkie Monkey Reel
Just For A Time
Just Like Job
Kin
A Kind Of Love, Some Say
Known To Eve And Me
Lady Luncheon Club
The Last Decision
Late October
The Lesson
Let's Majeste
Letter To An Aspiring Junkie
The Lie
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Little Girl Speakings
London
Lord, In My Heart
Loss Of Love
Love Letter
Man Bigot
Many And More
Martial Choreograph
Me And My Work
The Memory
Men
Miss Scarlet, Mr. Rhett And Other Latter-day Saints
Momma Welfare Roll
The Mothering Blackness
Mourning Grace
My Arkansas
My Guilt
My Life Has Turned To Blue
The New House
No Loser, No Weeper
No No No No
Nothing Much
Now Long Ago
Old Folks Laugh
On A Bright Day, Next Week
On Aging
On Diverse Deviations
On Reaching Forty
On The Pulse Of Morning
On Working White Liberals
One More Round
Our Grandmothers
Passing Time
Phenomenal Woman
Pickin Em Up And Layin Em Down
A Plagued Journey
Poor Girl
Preacher, Don't Send Me
Prelude To A Parting
Prescience
Prisoner
The Pusher
Recovery
Refusal
Rememberance
Remembering
Request
Reverses
Riot: 60's
Savior
Senses Of Insecurity
Sepia Fashion Show
Seven Women's Blessed Assurance
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?
The Singer Will Not Sing
Slave Coffle
Son To Mother
Song For The Old Ones
Sounds Like Pearls
Southeast Arkanasia
Starvation
Still I Rise
Take Time Out
Tears
The Telephone
Televised
Thank You, Lord
These Yet To Be United States
They Ask Why
They Went Home
The Thirteens (black)
The Thirteens (white)
This Winter Day
Through The Inner City To The Suburbs
Times-square-shoeshine-composition
To A Freedom Fighter
To A Husband
To A Man
To A Suitor
To Beat The Child Was Bad Enough
The Traveler
Unmeasured Tempo
We Saw Beyond Our Seeming
Weekend Glory
When I Think About Myself
When You Come To Me
Where We Belong, A Duet
Why Are They Happy People?
Willie
Woman Me
Woman Work
Wonder
Worker's Song
A Zorro Man
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

You will hear the regal woman, the mischievous street girl; you will hear the price of black woman's survival and you will hear of her generosity. Black, bitter, and beautiful, she speaks of our survival. -- James Baldwin

Customer Reviews

Poetry is what you make of it...
I only write this because I love this author more than any other and feel the need to defend this book from the critics who wrote the other reviews on it. I feel that poetry is what you make of it. If you can relate to what the poet is saying, what does it matter if they didn't follow specific guidelines that universities try to teach people who probably lack the free-form. Which is what I consider this book. Free-form poetry. So, yes,if you're only reading the book for an assignment or trying to analyze it into a specific form of poetry, you might be disappointed. However, if you are reading it in leisure or to connect with someone who can beautifully express some of our emotions and events of life, you won't be disappointed. That is if you can relate to it. As with all poetry, it will mean more to you if you can understand where the poet is coming from and connect that with your own emotions and personal experiences. From the time that I picked up this book over a decade ago, I have loved it! I hardly ever take the time to go back and re-read anything. I figure, once read, the most important of the knowledge is there and to move on, but I have read and re-read this book more times than I can remember! For me, it's full of emotion. I feel that in it's free-form, it's beautifully written. I could only ever hope to create a book as outstanding as this one, and I often compare my own free-form to hers.Once again, it's an outstanding book if you can relate to it.

Geno's Review
Review of Maya Angelou's : The Complete Collection of Poems by Maya Angelou.

This is a "got-to-have" for anyone interested in the poetic genius of the famous Poet. The book gives you a chance to look back in her early writings and see how she moves you as she advanced in her skills. I rather enjoyed the book because it inspires me to write my own poetry. I have given very nice books of poetry as Christmas gifts to people I know she could awaken their desires to succeed. This particular reference has all the best of Maya and you can feel the poems affect you daily. I have given this book a 5 star rating because it's so enjoyable.

Outstanding
I was given this book as a Christmas present and have gone back to it often. My favorite poem is "Life Doesn't Frighten Me" - I find myself going back to this one time and again. Maya Angelou proves herself as one of the outstanding comtemporary poets today by offering poetry that anyone, regardless of background, color, or creed, can find inspire in. Every woman should have a copy of this book.

From the author of The Difference Now, A New Dish, and At the Coffee Shop.