- Poetry, American poetry, African Americans, African American women authors
The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This new volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love.
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Character-led, earnest, grave and classical in form.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 48
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Virago, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553354584
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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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