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Maya Angelou by
These beautifully designed books combine poetry and biography with evocative photos and illustrations to create an inspiring introduction to the lives and works of some of the world's finest poets. "Voices in Poetry celebrates the intricate layers of meaning in the poets' lives--and in our own.
Call Number: 818 ANGPublication Date: 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
Maya Angelou's seven volumes of automgiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope and joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume she bequtifully evokes her childhood with er grandmother in the American South of the 1930's. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers a terrible trauma.
Call Number: B 813 ANGPublication Date: 1984
Mom and Me and Mom by
A moving memoir about the legendary author's relationship with her own mother. The story of Maya Angelou's extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
Call Number: B 818.540 ANGPublication Date: 2013
Life Doesn't Frighten Me by
Maya Angelou's brave poem is illustrated by the paintings of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Angelou is well-known for her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Biographies of the artists are included.
Call Number: 811.54 ANGPublication Date: 1996
Modern Women - 52 Pioneers by
From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, this book is a celebration of 52 influential and inspiring women who have profoundly changed the world through their lives, works and actions. The women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way.
Call Number: B 305.409 COCPublication Date: 2017
Critical Essays:
- Maya Angelou: Overview Author of five autobiographies and four volumes of poetry, as well as plays and screenplays, Maya Angelou is prolific and immensely popular. Her work in the fictional genre of creative autobiography is as engaging as her poetry, and is as truthful as autobiographies can ever hope to be.
- Transcendence: The Poetry of Maya Angelou Ramsey argues that Angelou's political and love poetry both acknowledge and transcend despair and unhappiness.
- Poetry : Something about everything Of Maya Angelou's six published volumes of poetry, the first four have been collected into one Bantam paperback volume, titled Maya Angelou: Poems (1986). Her early practice was to alternate a prose publication with a poetry volume, and a fifth "collection" follows her fifth autobiography.
- Racist Protest, Identity, Words and Form in Maya Angelou's "I know why the caged bird sings." Considering herself a poet and playwright, she had repeatedly refused Loomis's requests that she write an autobiography until he told her that it was just as well: "'He . . . said that to write an autobiography--as literature--is almost impossible. I said right then I'd do it'."
- Interview: Maya Angelou - The Art of Fiction, No. 119 Interviewed by George Plimpton, published in the Paris Review , Issue 116, Fall 1990.
eBooks
Maya Angelou by
From the child raised by her grandmother in a small village in Arkansas to the writer known as National Treasure, Angelou has lived a remarkable life. She rose from pain and poverty to achieve success as a dancer, an actress, a teacher and an award-winning author.
Call Number: eBOOKISBN: 9781464611476Publication Date: 2013
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Dr. Maya Angelou
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African American Poets [Critical Survey of Poets] by
African American Poets is a single-volume reference that contains selected essays from Critical Survey of Poetry, Fourth Edition. The essays in African American Poets discuss such influential poets as Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Paul Beatty, and Alice Walker.
Call Number: eBOOKISBN: 9781429836456Publication Date: 2011-09-01
Notable African American Writers by
Notable African American Writers contains 80 essays on important African American writers in all genres- from slave narratives to abolitionist tracts, from the harlem Renaissance of the 1920s to the Black Arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Call Number: eBOOKISBN: 9781587652721Publication Date: 2006-04-01
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry by
See Chapter "The Black Arts Movement.
The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.
Call Number: eBOOKISBN: 9780521814690Publication Date: 2003
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