I Shall Not be Moved [Import] [Paperback]

Maya Angelou (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853812129
• ISBN-13: 978-1853812125
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,185,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maya Angelou has been waitress, singer, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, writer and mother. As well as her autobiography she has written several volumes of poetry, including 'On the Pulse of the Morning' for the inauguration of President Clinton. She now has a life-time appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW......................, November 23, 2003

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Christina Packard (Dahlonega, GA 30533) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Shall Not Be Moved (Paperback)

I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou

Is a collection of forty-eight pages of poems. I know little of Maya. Even the small exposure I have had to a few of her writings leaves me wanting to know more about what she is saying. I found this book of poems a new experience not only to feel her glowing smile and personality while feeling the movement of her lyrics, but also to try and see through her eyes items of importance. In her poem Me and My Work, I found I need to understand more than I already do. The last couple lines are.....
"Yet the only thing I really don't need
is strangers' sympathy.
That's someone else's word for caring."

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Poetry, Angelou is by far the best Poet alive, December 13, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: I Shall Not Be Moved (Hardcover)

I have read every poem in this collection at least 50 times, no exateration, and they are great. One of these poems, Equailty, I have used for a high school poetry thesis, I made an "A". Even though this collection is from 1990 it is still update!

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Reigning Queen of Writers, June 23, 2006

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Ruth Z. Deming "Backyard Trees" (Willow Grove, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Shall Not Be Moved (Paperback)

In this 1990 volume of 48 pages, you will read in lyrical verse everything you need to know about oppression of Black people, by one of our finest writers. Angelou herself, now 78, has risen above bigotry, but hasn't, nor shouldn't, forget about it. It is the black person's legacy ("These Yet to Be United States") and the white person's shame. Author of the highly-acclaimed autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," Angelou sings about slave days, "take me on, Virginia, loose your turban of flowers" and in "The Grandmothers" speaks the title words, "I shall not be moved," a peon to the bravery of the black woman and the cruelty she has endured since captivity. This book should be read by every schoolteacher to her Ghetto children.