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The Birth Of Words http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah
Authors Reviewed
Maya Angelou; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/maya.html
Africa; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/africa.html
Text of Poem. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou.1994.Random House, Inc. NY
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/bird.html
Text of Poem. The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. 1994. Random House, Inc. NY
The Predicament of Black Americans at the End of the Century http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/angeloum2.ram
Audio from BBC Four/ Requires ‘Real One’
The Autobiographical Nature of Composition; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/angeloum1.ram
Audio from BBC Four/ Requires ‘Real One’
In this interview Ms. Angelou discusses the autobiographical nature of composing poetry, essays, short stories, novels, music and even painting and drawing on canvas. Her thesis in this interview is that all forms of art are autobiographical. She tells us that the artist, deemed a composer, painter, or sculptor, etc. creates a tangible representation of self; the art reveals much about the person who creates it. Art is the materialistic expression of self, in other words, it is a piece of the artist that has been extracted from within and molded without.
Telling about her crippled Uncle Willie and his genius; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/video_popup.shtml.htm
Audio from BBC Four/ Requires ‘Real One’
In this interview Ms. Angelou tells us a story. It is the story of the teaching of her Uncle Willie. Uncle Willie taught Maya her ‘timeses’, as a man standing over six foot tall, he would stand Maya in front of an old coal burning stove, place his arm on her shoulder and tell her to recite her timeses. As a man who never went to school, and was crippled so did not travel farther than five miles from home, Maya expected that Uncle Willie’s influence was appropriately curtailed. Upon his death she learns otherwise and also learns the power of a genius man named Uncle Willie.
The Power of Poetry and the Depth of Human Experience; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/video_popup_2.shtml.htm
Audio from BBC Four/ Requires ‘Real One’
Interview with Maya Angelou, by David Frost;
Voices From the Gap, a brief biography;
Wislawa Szymborska; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/wislawa.html
Brueghel’s Two Monkeys; http://www/oocities.com/rhabekah/monkeys.html
Selection from Poems New and Collected 1957-1997. Harcourt Brace & Company. English translation copyright © 1998 by Harcourt Brace & Company. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
Notes From A Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/yeti.html
Selection from Poems New and Collected 1957-1997. Harcourt Brace & Company. English translation copyright © 1998 by Harcourt Brace & Company. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
A View With A Grain Of sand; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/sand.html
Selection from Poems New and Collected 1957-1997. Harcourt Brace & Company. English translation copyright © 1998 by Harcourt Brace & Company. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanaugh.
Toni Morrison; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/toni.html
The Bluest Eye [critical review]; http://www.oocities.org/rhabekah/blue
Anniina’s Morrison Page; http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/tonimorrison/toni.htm
Any search engine running query on Toni Morrison will return Anniina’s Morrison Page. (I believe that the author of the site is Toni’s biggest fan.) This site maintains up to date information on Toni Morrison, her awards, appearances, publications and also has excerpts from The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Paradise, Sula, Tar Baby, and as well previous and current essays.
Main Page Audio Links
All audio is from BBC Four/ Requires ‘Real One’
British Broadcasting Audio Index; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/books/features/
Nadine Gordimer; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/gordimern1.shtml
Nobel Laureate
Alice Walker; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/walkera1.shtml
Author of The Color Purple.
Virginia Wolfe; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/woolfv1.shtml
Poet
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