The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou

4.38 AVERAGE

percystjoan's review against another edition

5.0
maya angelou is wonderful. favorite from the collection:

the detached

we die,
welcoming bluebeards to our darkening closets,
stranglers to our outstretched necks,
stranglers, who neither care nor
care to know that
DEATH IS INTERNAL.

we pray,
savoring sweet the teethed lies,
bellying the grounds before alien gods,
gods, who neither know nor
wish to know that
HELL IS INTERNAL.

we love,
rubbing the nakedness with gloved
hands,
inverting our mouths in tongued kisses,
kisses that neither touch nor
care to touch if
LOVE IS INTERNAL.

opinionhaver69's review against another edition

4.0
to be aware of language as a powerful tool that can be used to strike at an oppressor or uplift an entire community but also as a thing of joy, of playfulness and whimsy - to be able to wield it either way with such effortless mastery! a thoroughly impressive body of work & one that i (mostly) enjoyed a great deal

mrsmangoa's review against another edition

4.0
Still I rise!!
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rebeccalmreads's review against another edition

4.75
emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
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diana_raquel's review against another edition

4.0
emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
“Autopsy read:
dead of acute peoplelessness.”

Maya Angelou is one of those authors that I always wanted to try! So I decided to read an anthology of her poems. And I really liked them. They are emotional and powerful poems, filled with happiness and sadness, tenderness and pain! I loved them!

Really recommend!



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michellemybelle's review against another edition

4.5
a great start to my tender poetry era 🕊️😌

go_devils's review

4.25
emotional reflective fast-paced

clairehods_'s review against another edition

4.0
4.5/5
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meubanks's review against another edition

3.0
emotional reflective fast-paced

tnanz's review

5.0
Completely brilliant. Beautiful, lyrical, and powerful poetry. Loved the whole thing: a particular perk of this collection is that Angelou was a TERRIFIC poet right from the start. She didn't need to find her voice she magically had everything going on right from the start.