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Books. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie. Maya Angelou. Random House, 1997 - Poetry - 48 pages. Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most ...
Yet Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie, which was published in 1971, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1972. According to Carol Neubauer in Southern Women Writers, “the first twenty poems describe the whole gamut of love, from the first moment of passionate discovery to the first suspicion of painful loss.”
1 de ene. de 1993 · Maya Angelou is simply amazing, every word she uses is perfect and expertly chosen and placed. The first book is a collection of four of her poetry collections. “Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die”, “Oh Pray My Wings are Gonna Fit Me Well”, “And Still I Rise”, and “Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing”.
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1 de ene. de 1988 · Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie. Paperback – January 1, 1988. From this best-selling author comes a marvellous collection of poetry. Poems of love and regret, of racial strife and confrontation, songs of the people and songs of the heart - all are charged with Maya Angelou's zest for life and her rage at injustice.
- Maya Angelou
1 de ene. de 1973 · Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie. Paperback – January 1, 1973. A two-part anthology of poetry reflects on a black woman's experiences in America in "Where Love Is a Scream of Anguish," which interweaves poems of love, nostalgia, and memory, and "Just Before the World Ends," about the inherent confrontations of a racial society.
- Maya Angelou
By Maya Angelou. ‘Harlem Hopscotch’ by Maya Angelou is a thoughtful poem. It explores what it’s like to grow up Black in Harlem, New York. In this piece, Angelou describes a game of hopscotch, using it as an extended metaphor to speak about how Black men, women, and children have to move through a racist world.
