A review by sam_ash_smash
The Complete Poetry by Maya Angelou
4.0
I enjoyed Angelou's works from the middle of the this collection the best. Her poems on religion and discrimination and the experiences of a black women. I like the simplicity and raw feeling of these poems, more mature than the earlier ones but also more real feeling, at least to me, than the later ones.
Her poems on racism and the black experience had the most impact on me. Being Caucasian, there are a lot of things that I don't get about race, and just as many things that I might understand on an intellectual level but not on an emotional. Angelou's poems helped me understand those experiences a bit more; not only the bad, but also the good.
Her poems on racism and the black experience had the most impact on me. Being Caucasian, there are a lot of things that I don't get about race, and just as many things that I might understand on an intellectual level but not on an emotional. Angelou's poems helped me understand those experiences a bit more; not only the bad, but also the good.