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Maya Angelou: Poems

by Maya Angelou

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BOOK DETAILS

Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: Jan.01.1996
ISBN: 9780553255768
Publisher(s): Bantam Books

Maya gives an overview of the book:

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multifaceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time.

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About Maya

Maya Angelou is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature and as a remarkable Renaissance woman. Being a poet, educator, historian, best-selling author, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer and director, Dr. Angelou continues to travel the...

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Published Reviews

Dec.12.2007

Books in Brief: Nonfiction

Published by The New York Times

The poet Maya Angelou, after living abroad for four years, left her spirited nineteen-year-old son, Guy, attending college in Accra, Ghana, to return to the United States to assist Malcolm X in his founding...

Dec.12.2007

Part Five: Into Africa

Published by The New York Times

... What is most remarkable is not her success, but her candid admissions of failure and her indisputable certainty that only a unique black spiritual heritage has carried her beyond it. Repeatedly, she...