Name: Phenomenal Woman
Rating: 4.576923076923077 (13 reviews)
ISBN: 9780679439240

Maya Angelou

Four critically acclaimed poems--"Phenomenal Woman," "And Still I Rise," "Weekend Glory," and "Our Grandmothers"--celebrate the accomplishments of very special women

Four Poems Celebrating Women

Phenomenal Woman

Sophie Shrimpton

Maya is a brilliant and precise writer. The first two of these poems annoyed me a bit - the first for the performance to a male gaze and heteronormativity, the second because it felt cliched (though Maya probably created it). Nonetheless, within those constraints, the writing was delicious.

Includes the poems Phenomenal Woman, Still I Rise, Weekend Glory and Our Grandmothers. 

An excerpt I enjoyed from Weekend Glory:
They accuse me of livin’
from day to day,
but who are they kiddin’?
So are they.

Phenomenal Woman Four Poems Celebrating Women

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