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Maya Angelou, the complete poetry, Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou

the complete poetry

Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life

Just give me a cool drink of water 'fore I diiie -- pt. I. Where love is a scream of anguish -- They went home -- The gamut -- A Zorro man -- To a man -- Late October -- No loser, no weeper -- When you come to me -- Remembering -- In a time -- Tears -- The detached -- To a husband -- Accident -- Let's majeste -- After -- The mothering blackness -- On diverse deviations -- Mourning grace -- How can I lie to you -- Sounds like pearls -- pt. II. Just before the world ends -- When I think about myself -- On a bright day, next week -- Letter to an aspiring junkie -- Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and other latter-day saints -- Times-Square-shoeshine-composition -- Faces -- To a freedom fighter -- Riot : 60's -- We saw beyond our seeming -- Black ode -- No no no no --- My guilt -- The calling of names -- On working White liberals -- Sepia fashion show -- The thirteens (Black) -- The thirteens (White) -- Harlem hopscotchOh pray my wings are gonna fit me well -- pt. I. Pickin em up and layin em down -- Here's to adhering -- On reaching forty -- The telephone -- pt. II. Passing time -- Now long ago -- Greyday -- Poor girl -- Come, and be my baby -- Senses of insecurity -- Alone -- Communication I -- Communication II -- Wonder -- A conceit -- pt. III. Request -- Africa -- America -- For us, who dare not dare -- Lord, in my heart -- Artful pose -- pt. IV. The couple -- The pusher -- Chicken-Licken -- pt. V.I almost remember -- Prisoner -- Woman me -- John J. -- Southeast Arkanasia -- Song for the old ones -- Child dead in old seas -- Take time out -- Elegy -- Reverses -- Little girl speakings -- This winter dayAnd still I rise -- pt. I. Touch me, life, not softly -- A kind of love, some say -- Country lover -- Remembrance -- Where we belong, a duet -- Phenomenal woman -- Men -- Refusal -- Just for a time -- pt. II. Traveling -- Junkie monkey reel -- The lesson -- California prodigal -- My Arkansas -- Through the inner city to the suburbs -- Lady luncheon club -- Momma welfare roll -- The singer will not sing -- Willie -- To beat the child was bad enough -- Woman work -- One more round -- The traveler -- Kin -- The memory -- pt. III. And still I rise -- Still I rise -- Ain't that bad? -- Life doesn't frighten me -- Bump d'bump -- On aging -- In retrospect -- Just like Job -- Call letters : Mrs. V.B. -- Thank you, LordShaker, why don't you sing? -- Awaking in New York -- A good woman feeling bad -- The health-food diner -- A Georgia song -- Unmeasured tempo -- Amoebaean for Daddy -- Recovery -- Impeccable conception -- Caged bird -- Avec merci, Mother -- Arrival -- A plagued journey -- Starvation -- Contemporary announcement -- Prelude to a parting -- Martial choreograph -- To a suitor -- Insomniac -- Weekend glory -- The lie -- Prescience -- Family affairs -- Changes -- Brief innocence -- The last decision -- Slave coffee -- Shaker, why don't you sing? -- My life has turned to blueI shall not be moved -- Worker's song -- Human family -- Man bigot -- Old folks laugh -- Is love -- Forgive -- Insignificant -- Love letter -- Equality -- Coleridge Jackson -- Why are they happy people? -- Son to mother -- Known to Eve and me -- These yet to be United States -- Me and my work -- Changing -- Born that way -- Televised -- Nothing much -- Glory falls -- London -- Savior -- Many and more -- The new house -- Our grandmothers -- Preacher, don't send me -- Fightin' was natural -- Loss of love -- Seven women's blessed assurance -- In my Missouri -- They ask why -- When great trees fallOn the pulse of morning -- Celebrations -- A brave and startling truth -- Continue -- Sons and daughters -- A Black woman speaks to Black manhood -- Amazing peace -- Mother : a cradle to hold me -- In and out of time -- Ben Lear's bar mitzvah -- Vigil -- Prayer -- Amazement awaits -- His day is done

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