Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry

✍ Scribed by Angelou, Maya

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From her reflections on African American life and hardship inJust Give Me a CoolDrink of Water 'fore I Diiieto her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood inPhenomenal WomanandStill I Rise, and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela (On the Pulse of MorningandHis Day Is Done, respectively), every inspiring word of Maya Angelou's poetry is included in the pages of this volume.

✦ Table of Contents

Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie --
Where love is a scream of anguish --
Just before the world ends --
Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well --
And still I rise --
Touch me, life, not softly --
Traveling --
And still I rise --
Shaker, why don't you sing? --
I shall not be moved --
On the pulse of morning --
Celebrations --
A brave and startling truth --
Amazing peace --
Mother : a cradle to hold me --
Amazement awaits --
His day is done.

✦ Subjects

Poetry;Classics;Feminism;Nonfiction;Cultural;African American;Womens;Literature;American;Race;Inspirational