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Reviewer: Khazar2 ( talk · contribs) 18:28, 7 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Hi Christine, I'll be happy to take this one. Thanks for your continued work on these! -- Khazar2 ( talk) 18:28, 7 August 2013 (UTC) reply

As usual, I've made a few copyediting tweaks as I went; as usual for your nominations, this seems excellent so far and essentially ready to promote. Remaining quibbles below. I'll do spotchecks of the sources and a "main aspects" check tonight or tomorrow. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 18:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC) reply

• "is author and poet Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry" -- I'd suggest cutting "and poet" here; clear from the three volumes of poetry

Done.

• "perhaps to capitalize on her popularity following her reading of her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993" -- it's not clear to me why Random House would select this volume of poetry for The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou as a specific result of the inauguration reading; the "perhaps" here also makes me think this might need citation as an interpretation/inference

Hmm, this is the third of Angelou's poetry books and the first time someone's given me this feedback. I changed to wording to make it appear, um, less "interpretative". ;)

Ha, yeah, I'm pretty sure at least one of the other reviews is from me. If I missed it last time, sorry about that. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 01:32, 8 August 2013 (UTC) reply

• Was the full title of Cosmopolitan at the time Cosmopolitan Magazine? It seems like this should probably be written Cosmopolitan magazine.

Done.

• "Angelou skillfully engages" -- the "skillfully" here probably needs to be more directly attributed to a speaker for NPOV reasons

I added the quotes before the word in question and after "engages".

• " Neubauer and literary critic Harold Bloom" -- is it correct to attribute this to Harold Bloom here? The citation goes to Lynn Z Bloom. Bloom could be summarizing Bloom, but I thought I'd better doublecheck.

Nope, I was must missing a ref. Thanks for the catch; I added it.

• "African-American scholar " -- this phrase is slightly ambiguous as to whether she's Af-Am or studies Af-Am culture/lit. Could it simply be dropped, or shortened to "scholar"?

Shortened to "scholar".

• "The first part, entitled "Touch Me, Life, Not Softly", has been called "joyful"" -- needs its own inline citation--is this from Lippmann? -- Khazar2 ( talk) 18:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Yes, added citation. Thanks so much for the feedback! Christine (Figureskatingfan) ( talk) 22:19, 7 August 2013 (UTC) reply

Okay, all changes look good. Going to do a few last checks now, but I expect I'll be passing this very shortly. -- Khazar2 ( talk) 01:32, 8 August 2013 (UTC) reply

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