A Song Flung Up to Heaven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Song Flung Up to Heaven write by Maya Angelou. This book was released on 2003-04-01. A Song Flung Up to Heaven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heavenends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird.
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou write by Maya Angelou. This book was released on 2012-04-18. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. This Modern Library edition contains I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Gather Together in My Name, Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas, The Heart of a Woman, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and A Song Flung Up to Heaven. When I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published to widespread acclaim in 1969, Maya Angelou garnered the attention of an international audience with the triumphs and tragedies of her childhood in the American South. This soul-baring memoir launched a six-book epic spanning the sweep of the author’s incredible life. Now, for the first time, all six celebrated and bestselling autobiographies are available in this handsome one-volume edition. Dedicated fans and newcomers alike can follow the continually absorbing chronicle of Angelou’s life: her formative childhood in Stamps, Arkansas; the birth of her son, Guy, at the end of World War II; her adventures traveling abroad with the famed cast of Porgy and Bess; her experience living in a black expatriate “colony” in Ghana; her intense involvement with the civil rights movement, including her association with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X; and, finally, the beginning of her writing career. The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou traces the best and worst of the American experience in an achingly personal way. Angelou has chronicled her remarkable journey and inspired people of every generation and nationality to embrace life with commitment and passion.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes write by Maya Angelou. This book was released on 1991-06-04. All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an African American on the mother continent, where color no longer matters but where American-ness keeps asserting itself in ways both puzzling and heartbreaking. As it builds on the personal narrative of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name, this book confirms Maya Angelou’s stature as one of the most gifted autobiographers of our time.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome
Even the Stars Look Lonesome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Even the Stars Look Lonesome write by Maya Angelou. This book was released on 1997. Even the Stars Look Lonesome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author shares her experiences with and wisdom about aging, sensuality and sexuality, rage and violence, Oprah Winfrey, Africa, and the home
I Shall Not Be Moved
I Shall Not Be Moved - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Shall Not Be Moved write by Maya Angelou. This book was released on 2011-08-17. I Shall Not Be Moved available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free. Filled with bittersweet intimacies and ferocious courage, these poems are gems—many-faceted, bright with wisdom, radiant with life.
