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The Complete Collected Poems

On sale

7th February 2013

Price: £13.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781405524988

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Maya Angelou’s poetry – lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful – speaks of love, longings, partings; of Saturday night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. Of her poetry, Kirkus Reviews has written, ‘It is just as much a part of her autobiography as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, and The Heart of a Woman’.

Reviews

President Barack Obama
A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman
President Bill Clinton
The poems and stories she wrote . . . were gifts of wisdom and wit, courage and grace
Oprah Winfrey
She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds
Toni Morrison
She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate