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Earnest, grave, classical in form and spare.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 1974
- Pages
- 203
- Publisher
- Random House, Bantam Books, Bantam
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553251593
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“It was a "come as you are" party and "all y'all come."”
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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