Yale University Press thinks Maya Angelou is the face of poetry.
>>25190569I mean, why would it be, say, John Milton? No, it had to be the female poet of such saccharine writing that every quote I've seen attributed to her just as plausibly could have been attributed to Oprah Winfrey.
They could simply have chosen Emily Dickinson for the cover. It would be somewhat “inclusive”, because she is a woman, and at the same time it would be a proper choice, because her poetry and originality are more than great, they are frightening. If someone with her metaphorical inventiveness and verbal power had written the Quran or the prophetic books of the Bible it would almost seem like something created by someone who actually had heard the voice of God and had angels and seraphs as family members to gossip and share stories.
>>25190569They're trying to sell new books at full MSRP and the only people who do that just buy them to do bookhauls on tiktok
>>25190569burger letters
>>25190569modern poetry is the biggest humiliation ritual in literature
>>25190569I have no idea who this cooness is. But judging from the replies here. She isn’t very good. Typical for modern American education >>25190624>because her poetry and originality are more than great, they are frightening.Fucking this. No woman has come close to being as good a writer as her except maybe George Eliot. And no American other than Melville.
>>25190624I agree. What she wrote about goes beyond her time and whatever ideologies were being cooked up, a true mystic-poet, which is why she filters the general reading public: unto the ground their heads are yoked.
>>25191714Kek that gif caught me off guard I’m still laughing now HAHABut yes, I hope it wouldn’t be too bold to say that she very well may be the greatest female artist to have ever lived.
>>25190569who?
>>25190624Li Qingzhao has got to be up there.
it might as well be, potery died with the modernists, pound, elliott, anything after is just minorities writing bad free verse through the lens of hubristic identity politic
>>25193578Good verse still exists, it's just that most of it is published in the form of sound recordings set to music rather than in print now.
>>25193582Lyrics are generally shit and those considered to be greatest lyricists of all time, though better than any contemporary poet, are still mediocre at best.
>>25193585Dylan won a Nobel for literature.
>>25193592the nobel prize is shit
>>25193592Trump won the FIFA peace Prize
>>25193597But not a Nobel
>>25190569Caged BirdBy Maya AngelouA free bird leapson the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped and his feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.The free bird thinks of another breezeand the trade winds soft through the sighing treesand the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawnand he names the sky his own.But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.
>>25194463actually a good poemfunny how she's heralded as the queen of MFA poetry, but her poem uses rhyme and meter
