The Phenomenal Woman Poetry Anthology

Author : Ifeanyi Onuoha
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503012417

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The Phenomenal Woman Poetry Anthology by Ifeanyi Onuoha Pdf

A phenomenal read! This book is an important and inspiring collection of poetry by over 50 great writers from different corners of the world, who gathered together in the name of Dr. Maya Angelou, a leading light and woman of excellence. The writers have unleashed their poetic powers in reverence of her. The poems in this book are motivating and enthralling, entertaining and enlightening. They will make you shed tears, rejoice, pause and ponder about your life, living and legacy. This book is loaded with wealth of wisdom. After taking a journey through this masterpiece, you will have a deep rethink about your life and be fired up to be an exemplar. There's something for you in this book!

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307807625

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Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Pdf

A collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou These four poems, “Phenomenal Woman,” “Still I Rise,” “Weekend Glory,” and “Our Grandmothers,” are among the most remembered and acclaimed of Maya Angelou's poems. They celebrate women with a majesty that has inspired and touched the hearts of millions. “Phenomenal Woman” is a phenomenal poem that speaks to us of where we are as women at the dawn of a new century. In a clear voice, Maya Angelou vividly reminds us of our towering strength and beauty.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1954488009

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Phenomenal Women by Anonim Pdf

Phenomenal Women: An Anthology of Selected Poems (65 pages, 2023) is a new volume of poetry based on the title theme resulting from a Poetry Contest devised by the leadership of the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation and the Indian River County Chapter of the American Association of University Women. The contest focus comprised writers of the Space and Treasure Coast and poetry selected from submissions of diverse forms and styles, ranging from almost Haiku-like offerings to longer narrative poems. There were three prize categories, as well as publication for twelve authors in a lively, and very engaging treatment of the theme, profiling, at times very specifically, significant women in personal or world-renowned histories as related by the contributors. The award-winning poems are featured in the beginning pages with a fine selection of accompanying poems to follow.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307833273

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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie by Maya Angelou Pdf

Another remarkable collection of poetry from one of America's masters of the medium. The first part gathers together poems of love and nostalgic memory, while Part II portrays confrontations inherent in a racist society.

Author : Diana Whitney
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781523514007

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You Don't Have to Be Everything by Diana Whitney Pdf

Poems to Turn to Again and Again – from Amanda Gorman, Sharon Olds, Kate Baer, and More Created and compiled just for young women, You Don’t Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age, from loneliness to joy, longing to solace, attitude to humor. These unintimidating poems offer girls a message of self-acceptance and strength, giving them permission to let go of shame and perfectionism. The cast of 68 poets is extraordinary: Amanda Gorman, the first National Youth Poet Laureate, who read at Joe Biden's inauguration; bestselling authors like Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sharon Olds, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Mary Oliver; Instagram-famous poets including Kate Baer, Melody Lee, and Andrea Gibson; poets who are LGBTQ, poets of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, poets who sing of human experience in ways that are free from conventional ideas of femininity. Illustrated in full color with work by three diverse artists, this book is an inspired gift for daughters and granddaughters—and anyone on the path to becoming themselves. No matter how old you are, it helps to be young when you're coming to life, to be unfinished, a mysterious statement, a journey from star to star. —Joy Ladin, excerpt from "Survival Guide"

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307802064

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And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou Pdf

Maya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. 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. Thus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. “It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410355324

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A Study Guide for Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Susan L. Rattiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780486112657

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Great Poems by American Women by Susan L. Rattiner Pdf

Superb, inexpensive anthology spans four centuries to include more than 200 inspiring poems by Emily Dickinson, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and others.

Author : Illona Linthwaite
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39076002435019

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Ain't I a Woman! by Illona Linthwaite Pdf

Spanning the centuries from Sappho's Greece to tenth-century Japan, from nineteenth-century Chile to Zindziswa Mandela's twentieth-century South Africa, the voices of these women poets express themes of love, injustice, motherhood, and loss, and the oppressions of race and sex. The sequence of the poems moves from youth to old age, and they bear witness to the triumphs as well as the pain and frustration of women in many times and in many places. Among the many poets whose work is included are Anna Akhmatova, Maya Angelou, Judith Kazantzis, Gabriela Mistral, Marge Piercy, Irina Ratushinskaya and Alice Walker. Illona Linthwaite began gathering this collection several years ago, initially for a theatrical performance. Here, in this unique exchange between women of many races, affirming their differences and what they have in common, are more than 150 poems which assert the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth's challenge, "Ain't I a Woman!" In addition to the poems, there are biographies of the 91 contributors.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780679748380

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On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou Pdf

A beautifully packaged hardcover edition of the poem that captivated the nation and quickly became a national bestseller. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Lily Luverton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798728482932

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The Worst Poetry Book Ever by Lily Luverton Pdf

This book will leave you in silence. Whether it be from tears of laughter or from a single recurring thought: "WTF did I just read?", The Worst Poetry Book Ever, is quite literally the worst poetry book ever. I hope you like it! Or hate it!

Author : P. Bala S Devi
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Moon Bites by P. Bala S Devi Pdf

Poetry emerged as the primal and primary form of any language and carries the weight of the antiquity of eons. Older than history and as old as any religion, it has evolved through various forms and still stays multi-faceted and multi-colored. Nothing can teach and guide better than what the aesthetics of poetry could possibly do. This book is a few strands of such aesthetics that the author has strongly enjoyed and experienced.

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317763222

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Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson Pdf

The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Author : Elly Bulkin,Joan Larkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015005116713

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Lesbian Poetry, an Anthology by Elly Bulkin,Joan Larkin Pdf

Author : Joan Shelley Rubin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674035126

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Songs of Ourselves by Joan Shelley Rubin Pdf

Listen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Emphasizing the cultural circumstances that influenced the production and reception of poets and poetry in this country, Rubin recovers the experiences of ordinary people reading poems in public places. We see the recent immigrant seeking acceptance, the schoolchild eager to be integrated into the class, the mourner sharing grief at a funeral, the grandparent trying to bridge the generation gap--all instances of readers remaking texts to meet social and personal needs. Preserving the moral, romantic, and sentimental legacies of the nineteenth century, the act of reading poems offered cultural continuity, spiritual comfort, and pleasure. Songs of Ourselves is a unique history of literary texts as lived experience. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.