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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
by Maya Angelou
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This collection of Angelou's poems is notable for its love poetry as well as for its vivid, angry portrayal of the effects of racial confrontation in American society.
Available editions of Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
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9780679455776,
Audio Cassette,
Random House,
1997
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9780553135039,
Paperback,
Bantam Books,
1973
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Publisher Notes
A two-part anthology of poetry reflects on a black woman's experiences in America in "Where Love Is a Scream of Anguish," which interweaves poems of love, nostalgia, and memory, and "Just Before the World Ends," about the inherent confrontations of a racial society. Read by Maya Angelou. Book available.
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