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Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? is author and poet Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1983. It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career; she had written four autobiographies and published three other volumes of poetry up to that point.
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Evicted from sleep's mute palace, I wait in silence for the bridal croon; your legs rubbing insistent rhythm against my thighs, your breath moaning a canticle in my hair. But the solemn moments, unuttering, pass in unaccompanied procession.
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? is author and poet Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1983. It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career; she had written four autobiographies and published three other volumes of poetry up to that point.
Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? is author and poet Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1983. It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career; she had written four autobiographies and published three other volumes of poetry up to that point.
Aug 15, 2024 · In the following thumbnail review, Keefe praises Angelou's poems in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?, describing them as lyrical, emotional, and melancholy, with dee.
Random House, 1983 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 44 pages. Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered...
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About Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? 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. Read An Excerpt.
