Poems Maya Angelou

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. From the Paperback edition.

Poet, writer, performer, teacher and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with <b>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings</b>, she has also written five poetry collections, including <b>I Shall Not Be Moved</b> and <b>Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?</b>, as well as the celebrated poem "On the Pulse of Morning," which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton.