These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as
always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
* * *
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and Swelling I bear in the tide.”
--from
Still I Rise
Review:
One
of my favorite poets, Maya Angelou is life unleashed in her book of poetry, And Still I Rise. She touches her reader
with the struggles of the heart and soul in her poems of descriptive
oppression. One of my best-loved poems of Angelou is her Phenomenal Woman:
“Pretty
women wonder where my secret lies.
I’m
not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size
But
when I start to tell them,
They
think I’m telling lies.
I
say,
It’s
in the reach of my arms,
The
span of my hips,
The
stride of my step,
The
curl of my lips.
I’m
a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal
woman,
That’s
me.
--First
verse, Phenomal Woman
I
recommend this book to all poetry lovers. Angelou has an intriguing way of
expressing the many sides of herself to her reader through a pleasant and
powerful tempo.
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for visiting, Rose, Julie, Donna, & Rochelle
Length: 64 Pages
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