Book
And still I rise / Maya Angelou.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780394502526 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 54 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [1978]
- Copyright: ©1978
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| Subject: | American poetry > 20th century. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 818.54 Angel | 31681010271815 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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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 - Random House, Inc.
Maya Angelouâs unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBSâs American Masters.
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Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
Iâm not cute or built to suit a fashion modelâs size
But when I start to tell them,
They think Iâm telling lies.
I say,
Itâs in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
Iâm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
Thatâs me.
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Thus begins âPhenomenal Woman,â just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelouâs third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and freshâand, 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.
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âIt is true poetry she is writing,â M.F.K. Fisher has observed, ânot 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.â
