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Maya Angelou's third poetry collection, a unique celebration of life, consists of rhythms of strength, love, and remembrance, songs of the street, and lyrics of the heart.
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Character-led, earnest, spare and grave.
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- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- RH Audio Voices, Virago, Virago Press Ltd
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781844084999
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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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