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    Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power do spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's latest unforgettable work offers gems of truth throughout.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 29, 2005
    ISBN9780739334713
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    • 4/5
      I now know why so many inspirational quotations are taken from Angelou's poetry. I generally don't like rhyming poetry or proverb-like hooks in each ending of a poem, and yet Angelou does both with such skill that I almost didn't even think about those components as I was going through it. The poems are short and sweet and make their point in only a few verses which is incredibly difficult to achieve. "They Went Home," "The Detached," "When I think about Myself," "Faces," "Poor Girl," and "Wonder" are going to stay with me for a long time. I strongly recommend this collection to everyone (including those who don't like poetry).
    • 5/5
      i just love her books, I would definitely recommend this book
    • 5/5
      Another great book by Ms. Angelou, with captivating stories and life lessons.
    • 5/5
      Great read. I enjoyed every bit of it yes yes
    • 5/5
      Should be required reading for everyone engaged in being human.
    • 5/5
      More Maya goodness and wisdom - this is insight-filled, affirming, and encouraging. Highly recommended
    • 5/5
      Great truths! Confident statements which caused me to hold my head up.
    • 2/5
      Angelou is a first-rate autobiographer, and a mediocre poet, though a fine aloudreader and stage presence in an era when even Obama's first inaugural poet had no idea how to aloudread her own poem. Angelou fulfills the limited popular American (Romantic) idea of a poet--one who talks, ad infinitum, about oneself and one's problems (or in Angelou's case, problems over which she triumphs*). We are still stuck in the Romantic period, two centuries after Wordsworth and Coleridge (then Keats and Shelley and Byron) first started writing poems about themselves.Chaucer didn't. Shakespeare didn't in his plays, and in the sonnets, he gives a stage version of "self." Moliere didn't. Dryden didn't. Austen didn't. Dickens didn't really, even in Copperfield (a very dif feel from what his childhood must have felt like). The list goes on.Arguably, poets have the least interesting of lives, if they have the time and place to write. Not as interesting as a plumber's life, even--though I have known one good plumber-poet. The most interesting lives--say, a teenager in Mali, a refugee in Syria, a Parisian Jew at the start of WWII--are often too overwhelming to write well about, in the midst. Hemingway determined that all 20C writers would have to try to live "exciting" lives, in order to write about them. Poets don't bother. They find themselves endlessly interesting, though nobody else does. In Angelou's case, she combines sentimentality (Give me a cool drink of water 'fore I die...) with a triumphant tone of overcoming which always signals Public Relations. Then she adds a supcon of platitudes, like "one thing I cry for / ..believe in enough to die for...everyman's responsibility to man." If Bill Clinton had valued poetry more and politics less, Gwendolyn Brooks would have been his Inaugural poet. JFK had the respect for poetry--and the political genius--to select a political enemy, longtime Republican, to grace his Inaugural, Frost.
    • 4/5
      I read this book because I enjoy reading poetry. Maya Angelou is a true poet. Poetry has the ability to convey any emotion that you are feeling from happy to sad to in between. Children of all ages should be introduced to poetry but this book is probably for sixth graders.
    • 4/5
      I had to read this for school, so I was not originally very excited. Haha. But, as I started to read, I was captured by the imagery and informal language that Maya Angelou puts into her writing. Being a writer myself, I appreciated it more than some of my peers. I read some of the poems aloud to myself and the flow is really good, definitely a good book for contemporary poetry lovers. While non-poetry lovers might not be able to appreciate it as much, the good images help to make some of the poems more like a story.
    • 4/5
      Maya Angelou knows how to rhyme and how to be powerful with her words. Some of the poems in here are really amazing. This is a compilation of four different books of poetry by Maya Angelou.