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KM i i N^1 fcw?'>1 The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou w vm _r I f . FU* j„1F , l i «* : ] • • • m -M R A N D O M H O U S E raika, N E W Y O R K Copyright © 1994 by Maya Angelou All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. All of the poems in this collection, excluding the titles listed below, are copyright © Maya Angelou and are reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Hirt Music, Inc., c/o Gerard W. Purcell Associates, Ltd., for permission to reprint the following poems: "They Went Home," "The Gamut," "To a Man," "No Loser, N o Weeper," "When You Come to Me," "Remembering," "In a Time," "Tears," "The Detached," "To a Husband," "Accident," "Let's Majeste," or "The Ego and I," " O n Diverse Deviations," "Mourning Grace," "Sounds Like Pearls," "When I Think About Myself," "Letter to an Aspiring Junkie," "Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints," "Faces," "To a Freedom Fighter," "Riot: 60s,""No N o N o No,""Black Ode,""My Guilt," "The Calling of Names," "On Working White Liberals," "Sepia Fashion Show,""The Thirteens (Black),""The Thirteens (White)," and "Harlem Hopscotch." Copyright © 1969 by Hirt Music, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Hirt Music, Inc., c/o Gerard W Purcell Associates, Ltd., 964 Second Avenue, New York, N.Y 10022 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Angelou, Maya. [Poems] The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-679-42895-x I. Title. PS3551.N464A17 1994 811'.54—dc20 94-14501 Printed in the United States of America on acid-Jree paper 22 24 26 28 29 27 25 23 21 Book design by Carole Lowenstein This book is dedicated to the great love of my life. Contents Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water fore I Diiie PART ONE: WHERE LOVE IS A SCREAM OF ANGUISH They Went Home The Gamut A Zorro Man To a Man Late October No Loser, No Weeper When You Come to Me Remembering In a Time Tears The Detached To a Husband Accident Let's Majeste After The Mothering Blackness On Diverse Deviations Mourning Grace How I Can Lie to You Sounds Like Pearls 7 8 9 10 n 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 PART TWO: JUST BEFORE THE WORLD ENDS When I Think About Myself 29 On a Bright Day, Next Week 30 Letter to an Aspiring Junkie 31 Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints 32 Times- Square- Shoeshine- Composition 34 Faces To a Freedom Fighter Riot: 60's We Saw Beyond Our Seeming Black Ode No No No No My Guilt The Calling of Names On Working White Liberals Sepia Fashion Show The Thirteens (Black) The Thirteens (White) Harlem Hopscotch Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well PART ONE Pickin Em Up and Layin Em Down Here's to Adhering On Reaching Forty The Telephone PART TWO Passing Time Now Long Ago Greyday Poor Girl Come. And Be My Baby Senses of Insecurity Alone Communication I Communication II Wonder A Conceit PART THREE Request Africa America 36 37 3S 40 41 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 5i 59 61 63 64 67 68 69 70 72 73 74 76 77 78 79 S3 84 85 X For Us, Who Dare Not Dare Lord, in My Heart Artful Pose PART FOUR The Couple The Pusher Chicken-Licken PART FIVE I Almost Remember Prisoner Woman Me Johnf. Southeast Arkanasia Song for the Old Ones Child Dead in Old Seas Take Time Out Elegy Reverses Little Girl Speakings This Winter Day And Still I Rise PART ONE: T O U C H M E , LIFE, N O T SOFTLY A Kind of Love, Some Say Country Lover Remembrance Where We Belong, A Duet Phenomenal Woman Men Refusal Just for a Time PART TWO: TRAVELING Junkie Monkey Reel The Lesson California Prodigal My Arkansas 87 88 go 93 94 97 101 103 105 106 107 108 110 112 115 116 117 118 125 126 127 128 130 132 134 135 139 140 141 143 Through the Inner City to the Suburbs Lady Luncheon Club Momma Welfare Roll The Singer Will Not Sing Willie To Beat the Child Was Bad Enough Woman Work One More Round The Traveler Kin The Memory PART THREE: AND STILL I RISE Still I Rise Ain't That Bad? Life Doesn't Frighten Me Bump d'Bump On Aging In Retrospect Just Like Job Call Letters: Mrs. V. B. Thank You, Lord Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Awaking in New York A Good Woman Feeling Bad The Health-Food Diner A Georgia Song Unmeasured Tempo Amoebaean for Daddy Recovery Impeccable Conception Caged Bird Avec Merci, Mother Arrival A Plagued Journey Starvation 144 146 148 H9 150 152 153 155 157 158 160 163 165 167 i6g 170 171 172 174 175 183 184 185 187 189 igo 192 193 194 196 197 198 200 XII Contemporary Announcement Prelude to a Parting Martial Choreograph To a Suitor Insomniac Weekend Glory The Lie Prescience Family Affairs Changes Brief Innocence The Last Decision Slave Coffle Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? My Life Has Turned to Blue 201 202 203 204 205 206 208 2og 210 212 213 214 215 216 217 I Shall Not Be Moved Worker's Song Human Family Man Bigot Old Folks Laugh Is Love Forgive Insignificant Love Letter Equality Co leridge Jackson Why Are They Happy People? Son to Mother Known to Eve and Me These Yet to Be United States Me and My Work Changing Born That Way Televised Nothing Much 223 224 226 227 228 22g 230 231 232 234 237 238 239 241 242 243 244 246 247 XIII Glory Falls 248 London 249 Savior 250 Many amd More 251 The New House 232 Our Grandmothers 253 Preacher, Don't Send Me 257 Fightin'Was Natural 259 Loss of Love 260 Seven Women's Blessed Assurance 261 In My Missouri 263 They Ask Why 265 When Great Trees Fall 266 On the Pulse of Morning 269 XIV 5 •• $ $ iT 1 ** JL - T f ~ "•" 1 T ] 1 K 1 *i u a if I" R ....4 w v 1 P M & 1 i -* M Jwsf Gwe Me a Cool Drink oj Water Jore I Diiie s "1 m m 1 4 » Bun • OLII SH SSfe I 1 :• < a ? "• **« 1 '" m To AMBER SAM and the ZORROMAN • • PART ONE Where Love Is a Scream oj Anguish J L • H •J* Sil
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