SOURCE: A review of The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou and Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women, in World Literature Today, Vol. 69, No. 4, Autumn, 1995, p. 800.
In the following review, Cookson praises Angelou's use of black-speech rhythms, inflections and patterns in her poetry.
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