Maya Angelou - Black Pearls: The Poetry Of Maya Angelou Album

Tracklist
1 | When You Come To Me |
2 | To A Freedom Fighter |
3 | The Gamut |
4 | Faces |
5 | Tell Me |
6 | My Life Has Turned To Blue |
7 | No Loser, No Weeper |
8 | On Working White Liberals |
9 | The Thirteens (Black) |
10 | When I Think About Myself (Music: Black Incense) |
11 | My Guilt |
12 | Black Incense |
13 | In A Time |
14 | Song Of Insecurity |
15 | Miss Scarlett, Mr.Rhett And Other Latter-Day Saints |
16 | Let's Majeste |
17 | Re: Revolt (Riot:60's) |
18 | No No No No |
19 | The Thirteens (White) |
20 | Poem III |
21 | Letter To An Aspiring Junkie |
22 | The Detached |
23 | On Diverse Deviations |
24 | Harlem Hopscotch |
25 | A Dirge For Thanksgiving And Christmas |
26 | Sepia Fashion Show |
27 | Black Ode |
28 | Homewrecker's Lament (They Went Home) |
29 | Accident |
30 | I Will Last |
31 | Remembering |
32 | All Alone |
33 | Poem I (Sounds Like Pearls) |
34 | The Calling Of Names |
35 | Tears |
36 | Burnt Umber |
37 | To A Husband |
38 | To A Man |
Versions
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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ST 2001 | Maya Angelou | The Poetry Of Maya Angelou (LP, Album) | GWP Records | ST 2001 | US | 1969 |
PLP 32 | Maya Angelou | The Poetry Of (LP, RE) | Perception Records Inc | PLP 32 | US | 1972 |
PLP 32 | Maya Angelou | The Poetry Of (LP, Promo, RE) | Perception Records Inc | PLP 32 | US | 1972 |
Notes
Music composed and arranged by Ed Bland
Barcodes
- Barcode: 081227298722
Album
Maya Angelou, an African-American writer who is best known for her seven autobiographies, was also a prolific and successful poet. She has been called the black woman's poet laureate, and her poems have been called the anthems of African Americans. Angelou studied and began writing poetry at a young age, and used poetry and other great literature to cope with trauma, as she described in her first and most well-known autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She became a poet after a series of. There are five musical interludes by Ed Bland scattered throughout the record, but the primary appeal of the record, of course, is Angelou's poetry, and this record contains some impassioned readings of several of her finest poems. The reissue includes the original liner notes by James Baldwin, plus new notes from Robin Marcus Vazquez and Elizabeth Pavone. Angelous poetry collections include The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou 1994 and Phenomenal Woman 1995, a collection of four poems that takes its title from a poem which originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine in 1978. The poems narrator describes the physical and spiritual characteristics and qualities that make her attractive. Also author of The Poetry of Maya Angelou, 1969. Contributor of poems in The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets and to Mary Higgins Clark, Mother, Pocket Books New York, NY, 1996. Maya Angelou poems, quotations and biography on Maya Angelou poet page. Read all poems of Maya Angelou and infos about Maya Angelou. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degrees and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie. more . Maya Angelou Poems. Phenomenal Woman. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. Maya Angelou Format: Audio CD. Black Pearls: The Poetry of Maya Angelou opens with the poet reading hard words: No, the gap-legged whore on the eastern shore, enticing Europe to come into her kneeling mothers picking undigested beans from yesterday's shit and what a pity, the pity has folded in upon itself. The poet's rawness of vision and power seem capable of moving mountains. Maya Angelou reads her poetry, talks about I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and discusses a three-year period in her childhood in which she refused to speak. She's proud of being black, beautiful, musical, sexy and sassy. But she is most proud of what she has accomplished as a writer. Recorded in 1979. Start your review of Black Pearls: The Poetry of Maya Angelou. Write a review. Aug 16, 2008 Erotic Horizon added it. Black Pearls: The Poetry of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou 1998. Maya Angelou became the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco, California, in the 1940s. Did You Know Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, is the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman. Did You Know Maya Angelou recited one of her poems at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural ceremony-marking the first inaugural recitation since 1961. Did You Know. Maya Angelou was lauded in 1995 for her record-setting, two-year run on The New York Times' paperback nonfiction bestseller list. Did You Know . Music Burnt Umber Black Ode 22:58 - 23:23 16. To a Freedom Fighter 23:23 - 24:08 17. The Story About Maya Angelou that you have never heard in her own. Maya Angelou: Mystical, Magical, Musical and Lyrical at 92Y in 1971 - Продолжительность: 40:30 92Y Plus 3 by Maya Angelou. Re: Revolt Riots, 1960s. was sampled in. InFlux by DJ Shadow 1993. Maya Angelou. We are more alike than unalike. While Maya Angelou was living with her son in Ghana, she met and began working with Malcolm X. Please SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed More