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Background. Shaker, Why Don't You Sing is Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed ...
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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. You, whose chanteys hummed my life alive, have withdrawn your music and lean ...
Jan 1, 2001 · January 13, 2021. Shaker Why Don't You Sing? is Maya Angelou's fourth volume of poetry, published in 1983. Early in her writing career, Maya Angelou had begun to alternate the publication of part of her autobiography (which now runs to seven volumes) and a volume of poetry.
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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.
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Apr 10, 2013 · Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? AWAKING IN NEW YORK Curtains forcing their will against the wind, children sleep, exchanging dreams with seraphim. The city drags itself awake on subway straps; and I, an alarm, awake as a rumor of war, lay stretching into dawn, unasked and unheeded. A GOOD WOMAN FEELING BAD The blues may be the life you’ve led Or ...
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Apr 10, 2013 · Books. Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou. Random House Publishing Group, Apr 10, 2013 - Poetry - 44 pages. 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.
