Saturday, December 30, 2023

Curiosity 65: Maya Angelou, poet

I featured Maya Angelou not too long ago, but today I stumbled on something that led me back to her, so here she is again. The "something" was a photo I took this May on Hornøya, a bird island in the far north of Norway:

It's such a great line, but I didn't recognize it. A quick search found me this, which I will leave you with, for a very simple post for today. The animation is by Sarah Crisp; the voice is Angelou, reciting her poem "Life Doesn't Frighten Me":

The poem was also made into a children's book with illustrations by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Here are a couple of the spreads, though if you'd like to see the entire book (with a different narrator), it is here.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful poem by Angelou. Just hearing her voice is comforting.