| And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems Contributor(s): Angelou, Maya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0394502523 ISBN-13: 9780394502526 Publisher: Random House OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1978 Annotation: These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Inspirational & Religious - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 78057118 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.84" W x 8.51" (0.48 lbs) 64 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Maya Angelou's unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms, The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Thus begins "Phenomenal Woman," just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou's third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh--and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it. "It is true poetry she is writing," M.F.K. Fisher has observed, "not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes." |