5.0
And Still I Rise: A Selection of Poems Read by the Author
by Maya Angelou
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
Literature & FictionDramas & PlaysPoetryRegional & CulturalSelf ServiceCustom Stores
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERRandom House Audio
LANGUAGEEN
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, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Source: Wikipedia
5.0
And Still I Rise: A Selection of Poems Read by the Author
by Maya Angelou
These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.
From the Hardcover edition.
From the Hardcover edition.
Literature & FictionDramas & PlaysPoetryRegional & CulturalSelf ServiceCustom Stores
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERRandom House Audio
LANGUAGEEN
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, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights movement, and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Source: Wikipedia
