Maya Angelou: Poems
by:
Maya Angelou (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780780702363 (0780702360)
Publish date: January 1st 1996
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
I rarely read poetry because I have difficulty connecting with it. But this collection, on audio, is performed by the author herself, and hearing it in her own voice is profoundly moving. It gave me the opportunity to experience some of her less widely known work. Some of my favorites: Sounds Like ...
This is a phenomenal collection of poetry. Insightful, enlightening, humorous, heartbreaking, lyrical, amazing. The range of topics and style makes each poem feel unique. I really loved the flow and rhythm of the poems. Some of my favorites were "Phenomenal Woman", "Willie", "One More Round", "Still...
Maya Angelou certainly has a way with words. In this book of poems, her talent shines through. Each poem is deep, heartfelt and full of emotion. The words dance in your head and slowly form into pictures. Her poems are filled with images that stick in your head. Images and words that you really don'...
There are a lot of very famous poems in this collection but having encountered them later on it wasn't as surprising as I was expecting.
8 years ago
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