And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems

ISBN: 0394502523

Author: Angelou, Maya

Condition: New

Maya Angelous unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBSs American Masters.Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.Im not cute or built to suit a fashion models sizeBut when I start to tell them,They think Im telling lies.I say,Its in the reach of my arms,The span of my hips,The stride of my step,The curl of my lips.Im a womanPhenomenally.Phenomenal woman,Thats me.Thus begins Phenomenal Woman, just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelous third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh-and, 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.It is true poetry she is writing, M.F.K. Fisher has observed, not 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.