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Soniserous, yet sassy, these are all of Maya Angelou's extant verse, brought together in a single and singular volume, a great many culled from commercially credible women's magazines during the 20th century. With brashness, bravado, & quick-witted quirkiness, Ms. Angelou delivers both a turncated if at times tarnished, view of Southern engalitarian extremes, coupled with ever-present crass crippling poverty's deferment of American, working class, white collar dreams.
Soniserous, yet sassy, these are all of Maya Angelou's extant verse, brought together in a single and singular volume, a great many culled from commercially credible women's magazines during the 20th century. With brashness, bravado, & quick-witted quirkiness, Ms. Angelou delivers both a turncated if at times tarnished, view of Southern engalitarian extremes, coupled with ever-present crass crippling poverty's deferment of American, working class, white collar dreams.
The website Goodreads.com mistakenly lists this as an anthology containing works by both Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, though this supposition is sadly in error. I first became accquainted with this book upon the initial publication of it as a hardcover edition while visiting the Alma mater of my father's family friend. As a forerunner and prognosticator of the Harlem Rennaisance, there are more than a few exuberant surprises one ought find here within Countee Cullen's complete and collected works.
The website Goodreads.com mistakenly lists this as an anthology containing works by both Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, though this supposition is sadly in error. I first became accquainted with this book upon the initial publication of it as a hardcover edition while visiting the Alma mater of my father's family friend. As a forerunner and prognosticator of the Harlem Rennaisance, there are more than a few exuberant surprises one ought find here within Countee Cullen's complete and collected works.
Didn't exactly feel much love, if any, for this volume of short fiction by this author. It may be more nnnecessary for me in the future to become less baiased against authors which I've previously read which may concern themselves with similar narrrative styles, so as not to oughtrightly reject or otherwise skip over unfamiliar trends or terrritory which are unfolding by the newest and most current and contemporary practitioners of both the short story and mainstream fiction genres.
Didn't exactly feel much love, if any, for this volume of short fiction by this author. It may be more nnnecessary for me in the future to become less baiased against authors which I've previously read which may concern themselves with similar narrrative styles, so as not to oughtrightly reject or otherwise skip over unfamiliar trends or terrritory which are unfolding by the newest and most current and contemporary practitioners of both the short story and mainstream fiction genres.
