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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Angelou, Maya. Shaker, why don't you sing? New York : Random House, c1983 (OCoLC)557868508 |
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| Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maya Angelou |
| ISBN: | 0394521447 9780394521442 |
| OCLC Number: | 9194781 |
| Description: | 44 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Awaking in New York -- Good woman feeling bad -- Health-food diner -- Georgia song -- Unmeasured tempo -- Amoebaean for daddy -- Recover -- Impeccable conception -- Caged bird -- Avec merci, mother -- Arrival -- Plagued journey -- Starvation -- Contemporary announcement -- Prelude to a parting -- Martial choreograph -- To a suitor -- Insomniac -- Weekend glory -- Lie -- Prescience -- Family affairs -- Changes -- Brief innocence -- Last decision -- Slave coffle -- Shaker, why don't you sing? -- My life has turned to blue. |
| Responsibility: | Maya Angelou. |
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Abstract:
Lyrical and cadent, dramatic and sometimes playful, these poems speak of love, longing, parting; of freedom and shattered dreams; of Saturday-night partying and the smells and sounds of Southern cities.
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