8 Replies to “Maya Angelou [Dan Collins]”

1. happyfeet says:

   January 28, 2008 at 8:03 pm

   I totally never got her really but I thought her Hallmark line was astutely marketed. Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby I thought was very very cool and also it had hot lesbians but Beloved I never finished and then lost interest.

2. Cowboy says:

   January 28, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   Nope. I’ve taught literature longer than Obama’s been breathing–Angelou sucks.

3. Christopher Taylor says:

   January 28, 2008 at 9:58 pm

   Most modern poetry is horrible, like most modern art and attempts at classical music.

4. nishizonoshinji says:

   January 28, 2008 at 11:41 pm

   hmmmm…..i like quite a bit one thing angelou said…
   it is very poignant especially when applied to the clintons…..

   “…when someone shows you who they are….believe them.
   the first time.”

5. thor says:

   January 29, 2008 at 2:30 am

   But she’s so well spoken.

6. Mikey NTH says:

   January 29, 2008 at 6:59 am

   Christopher, I think that a lot of ‘poets’ have yet to figure out that random punctuation and line breaks does not make a diatribe a poem.

   I blame marx for this. Because a lot of poets are marxists and, well, he’s dead and can’t fight back.

7. Rusty says:

   January 29, 2008 at 5:30 pm

   You can almost spell ‘glamour’ from her name, but you can spell ‘mangle you’. If she wasn’t black she’d never have gotten published.

8. Andrew says:

   January 30, 2008 at 8:06 am

   Angelou is at best a mediocre poet. She’s still better than the swill that gets past off as poetry, which pays attention neither to rythmn, meter, or anything else of the art, which is better described as anti-poetry.

   Anti-poetry came into existence for a reason, namely the stultifying encrusted dullness of a signifigant portion of 19th century Romanticism. But enough is enough.
   I like writing sonnets. The form is ingeniously malleable.

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