Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
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PengarangMaya Angelou
NegaraUnited States
BahasaEnglish
GenrePoetry
PenerbitRandom House, Inc.
Tanggal terbit
August 12, 1971 (1st edition)
Jenis mediaPrint (hardcover & paperback)
Halaman48 pp (hardcover 1st edition)
ISBNISBN 978-0-394-47142-6 (hardcover 1st edition)
OCLC160599
Desimal Dewey
811
Diikuti olehOh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well 

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie adalah judul buku kumpulan puisi karya penyair Amerika Serikat Maya Angelou yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1971. Beberapa puisi dalam Diiie awalnya merupakan lirik lagu yang ditulis oleh Angelou saat meniti kariernya di sebuah kelab malam, dan direkam dalam dua album, sebelum Angelou menerbitkan autobiografi pertamanya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). Angelou menganggap dirinya sebagai seorang penyair dan ramawan, tapi kemudian dia dikenal sebagai penulis tujuh autobiografi.

Diiie terdiri dari 38 puisi. 20 puisi dalam bagian pertama, "Where Love is a Scream of Anguish", berkisah tentang cinta. Beberapa puisi dalam bagian ini dan bagian selanjutnya memiliki struktur selayaknya musik blues dan jazz music, dan memiliki tema universal tentang cinta dan kehilangan.

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie menuai banyak ulasan dari para kritikus, tetapi menjadi buku terlaris dan masuk nominasi dalam penghargaan Pulitzer Prize. Beberapa kritikus berharap, dalam buku ini akan pepuler meskipun banyak ulasan negatif

Puisi-puisi

Bagian pertama: Where Love is a Scream of Anguish

  • "They Went Home"
  • "The Gamut"
  • "A Zorro Man"
  • "To a Man"
  • "Late October"
  • "No Loser, No Weeper"
  • "When You Come to Me"
  • "Remembering"
  • "In a Time"
  • "Tears"
  • "The Detached"
  • "To a Husband"
  • "Accident"
  • "Let's Majeste"
  • "After"
  • "The Mothering Blackness"
  • "On Diverse Deviations"
  • "Mourning Grace"
  • "How I Can Lie to You"
  • "Sounds Like Pearls"

Bagian kedua: Just Before the World Ends

  • "When I Think About Myself"
  • "On a Bright Day, Next Week"
  • "Letter to an Aspiring Junkie"
  • "Miss Scarlett, Mr. Rhett and Other Latter-Day Saints"
  • "Times-Square-Shoeshine-Composition"
  • "Faces"
  • "To a Freedom Fighter"
  • "Riot: 60's"
  • "We Saw Beyond Our Seeming"
  • "Black Ode"
  • "No No No No"
  • "My Guilt"
  • "The Calling of Names"
  • "On Working White Liberals"
  • "Sepia Fashion Show"
  • "The Thirteens (Black)"
  • "The Thirteens (White)"
  • "Harlem Hopscotch"

Referensi

Rujukan karya

  • Bloom, Harold. (2001). Maya Angelou. Broomall, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 0-7910-5937-5
  • DeGout, Yasmin Y. DeGout (2009). "The Poetry of Maya Angelou: Liberation Ideology and Technique". In Bloom's Modern Critical Views—Maya Angelou, Harold Bloom, ed. New York: Infobase Publishing, pp. 121–132. ISBN 978-1-60413-177-2
  • Gillespie, Marcia Ann, Rosa Johnson Butler, and Richard A. Long. (2008). Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-385-51108-7
  • Hagen, Lyman B. (1997). Heart of a Woman, Mind of a Writer, and Soul of a Poet: A Critical Analysis of the Writings of Maya Angelou. Lanham, Maryland: University Press. ISBN 978-0-7618-0621-9
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