Poems by Maya Angelou - ISBN: 9780553255768
Paperback
Deals with love, death, nature, the past, sorrow, self-image, street life, memories, aging, men and women, childhood, racism, and writers.

Poems

Maya Angelou

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    31 March 1999

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Summary

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness,sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart andcelebrates life as only she has discovered it. Inthis moving volume of poetry, we hear themulti-faceted voice of one of the most powerful andvibrant writers of our time.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780553255768
ISBN-10:0553255762
Author:Maya Angelou
Publisher:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Imprint:Bantam USA
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:31 March 1999
Weight:119g
Dimensions:173mm x 104mm x 15mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“The wisdom, rue and

“The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product of a born writer’s senses nourished on black church singing and preaching, soft mother talk and salty street talk, and on literature: James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Shakespeare and Gorki.”—The New York Times Book Review.“Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival.”—James Baldwin

About The Author

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014.

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