Title:
The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou.
Author:
Uniform Title:
Poems
ISBN:
9780679428954
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, c1994.
Physical Description:
xiv, 273 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
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 I Can Lie to You -- Sounds Like Pearls -- 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 Hopscotch -- Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down -- Here's to Adhering -- On Reaching Forty -- The Telephone -- Passing Time -- Now Long Ago -- Greyday -- Poor Girl -- Come, And Be My Baby -- Senses of Insecurity -- Alone -- Communication I.
Communication II -- Wonder -- A Conceit -- Request -- Africa -- America -- For Us, Who Dare Not Dare -- Lord, in My Heart -- Artful Pose -- The Couple -- The Pusher -- Chicken-Licken -- 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 Day -- A Kind of Love, Some Say -- Country Lover -- Remembrance -- Where We Belong, A Duet -- Phenomenal Woman -- Men -- Refusal -- Just for a Time -- 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 -- 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, Lord.
Awaking in New York -- A Good Woman Feeling Bad -- The Health-Food Diner -- A Georgia Song -- Unmeasured Tempo -- Amoebacan 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 Coffle -- Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? -- My Life Has Turned to Blue -- 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 -- Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield -- On the Pulse of Morning.
Summary:
"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."--Library Journal.
