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For the first time, the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible, handsome hardcover edition.

Maya Angelou is the author of the bestselling I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, and The Heart of a Woman, as well as five collections of poetry and the inaugural poem On the Pulse of Morning. In theater, she produced, directed, and starred in Cabaret for Freedom in collaboration with Godfrey Cambridge at New York's Village Gate; starred in Genet's The Blacks at the St. Mark's Playhouse; and adapted Sophocles' Ajax, which premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in 1974. She wrote the original screenplay and musical score for the film Georgia, Georgia and wrote and produced a ten-part TV series on African traditions in American life. In the sixties, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., she became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and in 1975 she received the Ladies' Home Journal Woman of the Year Award in communications. She has received numerous honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year and by President Gerald R. Ford to the American Revolution Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is on the board of trustees of the American Film Institute and is also one of the few female members of the Directors Guild. Maya Angelou is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

They Went Home	p. 7
The Gamut	p. 8
A Zorro Man	p. 9
To a Man	p. 10
Late October	p. 11
No Loser, No Weeper	p. 12
When You Come to Me	p. 13
Remembering	p. 14
In a Time	p. 15
Tears	p. 16
The Detached	p. 17
To a Husband	p. 18
Accident	p. 19
Let's Majeste	p. 20
After	p. 21
The Mothering Blackness	p. 22
On Diverse Deviations	p. 23
Mourning Grace	p. 24
How I Can Lie to You	p. 25
Sounds Like Pearls	p. 26
When I Think About Myself	p. 29
On a Bright Day, Next Week	p. 30
Letter to an Aspiring Junkie	p. 31
Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints	p. 32
Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition	p. 34
Faces	p. 36
To a Freedom Fighter	p. 37
Riot: 60's	p. 38
We Saw Beyond Our Seeming	p. 40
Black Ode	p. 41
No No No No	p. 42
My Guilt	p. 45
The Calling of Names	p. 46
On Working White Liberals	p. 47
Sepia Fashion Show	p. 48
The Thirteens (Black)	p. 49
The Thirteens (White)	p. 50
Harlem Hopscotch	p. 51
Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down	p. 59
Here's to Adhering	p. 61
On Reaching Forty	p. 63
The Telephone	p. 64
Passing Time	p. 67
Now Long Ago	p. 68
Greyday	p. 69
Poor Girl	p. 70
Come, And Be My Baby	p. 72
Senses of Insecurity	p. 73
Alone	p. 74
Communication I	p. 76
Communication II	p. 77
Wonder	p. 78
A Conceit	p. 79
Request	p. 83
Africa	p. 84
America	p. 85
For Us, Who Dare Not Dare	p. 87
Lord, in My Heart	p. 88
Artful Pose	p. 90
The Couple	p. 93
The Pusher	p. 94
Chicken-Licken	p. 97
I Almost Remember	p. 101
Prisoner	p. 103
Woman Me	p. 105
John J.	p. 106
Southeast Arkanasia	p. 107
Song for the Old Ones	p. 108
Child Dead in Old Seas	p. 110
Take Time Out	p. 112
Elegy	p. 115
Reverses	p. 116
Little Girl Speakings	p. 117
This Winter Day	p. 118
A Kind of Love, Some Say	p. 125
Country Lover	p. 126
Remembrance	p. 127
Where We Belong, A Duet	p. 128
Phenomenal Woman	p. 130
Men	p. 132
Refusal	p. 134
Just for a Time	p. 135
Junkie Monkey Reel	p. 139
The Lesson	p. 140
California Prodigal	p. 141
My Arkansas	p. 143
Through the Inner City to the Suburbs	p. 144
Lady Luncheon Club	p. 146
Momma Welfare Roll	p. 148
The Singer Will Not Sing	p. 149
Willie	p. 150
To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough	p. 152
Woman Work	p. 153
One More Round	p. 155
The Traveler	p. 157
Kin	p. 158
The Memory	p. 160
Still I Rise	p. 163
Ain't That Bad?	p. 165
Life Doesn't Frighten Me	p. 167
Bump d'Bump	p. 169
On Aging	p. 170
In Retrospect	p. 171
Just Like Job	p. 172
Call Letters: Mrs. V. B.	p. 174
Thank You, Lord	p. 175
Awaking in New York	p. 183
A Good Woman Feeling Bad	p. 184
The Health-Food Diner	p. 185
A Georgia Song	p. 187
Unmeasured Tempo	p. 189
Amoebacan for Daddy	p. 190
Recovery	p. 192
Impeccable Conception	p. 193
Caged Bird	p. 194
Avec Merci, Mother	p. 196
Arrival	p. 197
A Plagued Journey	p. 198
Starvation	p. 200
Contemporary Announcement	p. 201
Prelude to a Parting	p. 202
Martial Choreograph	p. 203
To a Suitor	p. 204
Insomniac	p. 205
Weekend Glory	p. 206
The Lie	p. 208
Prescience	p. 209
Family Affairs	p. 210
Changes	p. 212
Brief Innocence	p. 213
The Last Decision	p. 214
Slave Coffle	p. 215
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?	p. 216
My Life Has Turned to Blue	p. 217
Worker's Song	p. 223
Human Family	p. 224
Man Bigot	p. 226
Old Folks Laugh	p. 227
Is Love	p. 228
Forgive	p. 229
Insignificant	p. 230
Love Letter	p. 231
Equality	p. 232
Coleridge Jackson	p. 234
Why Are They Happy People?	p. 237
Son to Mother	p. 238
Known to Eve and Me	p. 239
These Yet to Be United States	p. 241
Me and My Work	p. 242
Changing	p. 243
Born That Way	p. 244
Televised	p. 246
Nothing Much	p. 247
Glory Falls	p. 248
London	p. 249
Savior	p. 250
Many and More	p. 251
The New House	p. 252
Our Grandmothers	p. 253
Preacher, Don't Send Me	p. 257
Fightin' Was Natural	p. 259
Loss of Love	p. 260
Seven Women's Blessed Assurance	p. 261
In My Missouri	p. 263
They Ask Why	p. 265
Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield	p. 266
On the Pulse of Morning	p. 269
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The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

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