A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, ...
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A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou Maya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love, longing, partings; of Saturday night partying, and the smells and sounds of Southern cities; of freedom and shattered dreams. 'Her poetry is just as much a part of her autobiography as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and the volumes that follow.' Kirkus 'It is true poetry she is writing . . . it has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity' M. F. K. Fisher
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) Inscribed and dated 8/87 by Maya Angelou on title page: "David, Joy! Liz [? ] and Maya Angelou"; A bit of edge wear to card covers; previous owner's name on front end paper; light age-toning to paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or undelrining; collectible condition; 100 pages.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Fine in nearly Fine dust jacket. Housed in a unclipped first issue dust jacket with the price $6.95 intact and photograph of the author on rear panel, minor toning to yellow on jacket spine. Bound in red paper board with yellow cloth backstrip, gilt embossed title on front and spine. Signed "Joy! Maya Angelou" on first flyleaf. Interior bright and clean, appearing virtually unread. First edition of Angelou's third book of poetry, signed by the author, which includes her famous poems "Still I Rise" and "Phenomenal Woman." Her 32 poems divided into three sections explore hope and resilience through the lens of gender and race. A compelling collection by the prolific award-winning author and activist, who once described her work thus: "I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition-about what we can endure, dream, fail at and still survive." Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.