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Angelou's second book of essays, Even the Stars Look Lonesome, was published in 1997. She had earlier published several volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971). [6] Angelou's first personal essays were published in Essence in late 1992.
Gather Together in My Name is a 1974 memoir by American writer and poet Maya Angelou.It is the second book in Angelou's series of seven autobiographies. Written three years after the publication of and beginning immediately following the events described in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it follows Angelou, called Rita, from the ages of 17 to 19.
Angelou reciting "On the Pulse of Morning" at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1993 "On the Pulse of Morning" is a poem by writer and poet Maya Angelou that she read at the first inauguration of President Bill Clinton on January 20, 1993. With her public recitation, Angelou became the second poet in history to read a poem at a ...
Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world.. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
Critic Richard Long called two of the previously published poems, "On the Pulse of Morning" and "A Brave and Startling Truth", Angelou's "public" poems. [1] She read "On the Pulse of Morning", her most famous poem, at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton in 1993. [ 2 ]
Angelou uses the metaphor of a bird struggling to escape its cage described in the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem "Sympathy" throughout all of her autobiographies; she uses the metaphor in the titles of both I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and her sixth autobiography A Song Flung Up to Heaven. [19]
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986, is the fifth book in African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou's seven-volume autobiography series. Set between 1962 and 1965, the book begins when Angelou is 33 years old, and recounts the years she lived in Accra , Ghana .
Maya is disturbed by Tosh's atheism and his control of her life, but does little to challenge his authority. After Tosh tells her son Clyde that there is no God, Maya rebels by secretly attending Black churches. After three years the marriage disintegrates when Tosh announces to Maya that he is "tired of being married". [23]