Black Pearls: The Poetry of Maya Angelou

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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. Some 30 years ago, when these words were recorded, Angelou was fierce, vital, justifiably angry. All this may not jibe with the weeping you did in junior high when you read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It may not mesh with your vision of the gentle, elegant lady you know as the highly visible mentor and friend to Oprah Winfrey and the first-term inaugural poet to President Clinton. Yet know this: Angelou, a speaker of truth, not only survived cruel injustice but used words to burn through it and come to grace. As she says, "My crime is that I live to tell," and we desperately need her trespass in order to live with what we know and are unable to give voice to. --Paige La Grone

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Average customer rating: Not enough for this woman No sirree

Black Pearls: The Poetry Of Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Calypso | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music General | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Been Found A Song Flung Up to Heaven The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ASIN: B0000063DW Release Date: 1998-03-17

Tracks:

1. No No No No
2. I Will Last (Instrumental) - Ed Bland
3. The Calling Of Names
4. Letter To An Aspiring Junkie
5. Sepia Fashion Show
6. On Working White Liberals
7. Homewrecker's Lament (They Went Home)
8. Re: Revolt (Riot: 60's)
9. The Thirteens (Black)
10. The Thirteens (White)
11. Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett And Other Latter-Day Saints
12. Harlem Hopscotch
13. My Guilt
14. No Loser, No Weeper
15. A Dirge For Thanksgiving And Christmas
16. When I Think About Myself
17. Black Incense (Instrumental) - Ed Bland
18. Burnt Umber (Instrumental) - Ed Bland
19. Black Ode
20. To A Freedom Fighter
21. To A Husband
22. All Alone (Instrumental) - Ed Bland
23. Song Of Insecurity (Senses Of Insecurity)
24. The Gamut
25. When You Come To Me
26. To A Man
27. Faces
28. Remembering
29. In A Time
30. Tears
31. The Detached
32. My Life Has Turned To Blue
33. Let's Majeste
34. On Diverse Deviations
35. Poem III (Mourning Grace)
36. Accident
37. Poem I (Sounds Like Pearls)
38. Tell Me (Instrumental) - Ed Bland

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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. Some 30 years ago, when these words were recorded, Angelou was fierce, vital, justifiably angry. All this may not jibe with the weeping you did in junior high when you read I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. It may not mesh with your vision of the gentle, elegant lady you know as the highly visible mentor and friend to Oprah Winfrey and the first-term inaugural poet to President Clinton. Yet know this: Angelou, a speaker of truth, not only survived cruel injustice but used words to burn through it and come to grace. As she says, "My crime is that I live to tell," and we desperately need her trespass in order to live with what we know and are unable to give voice to. --Paige La Grone

Customer Reviews:

Not enough for this woman No sirree.......2001-03-14

I think Maya angelou is a wonder artist as well as poet, author, african american woman, etc. i would definitely recommend this c.d. to anyone. But as far as her having enough websites for us children to do a report on. It's totally over. I mean I had to go to about 17 diiferent places just to see how many books she wrote about and now I have to read her book just to find out Ms. Angelou's life so she has inspired me to do Langston Hughs thanks a lot Maya Angelou. Sincerely kandi Sandusky.

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