- African Americans, Poetry, American Poetry, Modern Poetry
Contains poems with the themes of racial confrontation, love, and nostalgic memory.
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Character-led, contemplative, classical in form and earnest.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 56
- Publisher
- Random House, Bantam, Virago Press Ltd
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780394471426
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director
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