Maya Angelou

A beautifully curated collection of Maya Angelou's most beloved poems, accompanied by the vibrant artwork of Aurélia Durand. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me. Radical self acceptance. Hope through turbulent times. Love as an anchor. Maya Angelou's poetry is the perfect gift for any occasion. Let her timeless words, seasoned with wisdom, carry you on a journey, no matter where you may be on life's path. Whether you're new to Angelou's work or revisiting your favourite pieces, this edition is one to cherish.

This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths. In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward," she writes, "and speak the word aloud. Peace." Read by the poet at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House on December 1, 2005, Maya Angelou' s celebration of the "Glad Season" is a radiant affirmation of the goodness of life.

A selection from the collected poems of Maya Angelou, translated into te reo Maori by thirty-four wahine from across Aotearoa. Rangona ai ko te reo o te tira wahine. He huinga ruri na Maya Angelou, na nga Ika a Whiro o Te Panekiretanga o Te Reo.

For the first time ever, fans of Maya Angelou have creative space to write their own masterpieces alongside quotes from the phenomenal poet, memoirist, activist, and actor in this elegant and evocative journal. Building on the rich legacy of Maya Angelou's publishing catalog, this blank journal--sprinkled with her signature wit and wisdom throughout--offers readers and fans new ways to celebrate one of America's literary heroes and enjoy her words of wisdom, inspiration, encouragement, and empowerment. This gorgeous writing notebook includes some of Dr. Angelou's most powerful statements, including, "What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain." And readers will be prompted along their own journeys with affirmations from her most famous poems, like, "I am a woman phenomenally; phenomenal woman--that's me." Whether you're finally starting that book you've been meaning to write, taking notes at church, capturing key information while on the go, or just meditating with your pen line by line, wherever you open these pages, Dr. Angelou will be with you and encouraging you to continue.

Piece together this stunning 500-piece puzzle featureing the iconic cover art from Maya Angelou's debut memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. "Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you."--Maya Angelou For the first time, fans of the beloved literary great Maya Angelou can piece together the cover of her poetic, painful, and memorable autobiography. With 500 pieces and a finished size of 18 x 24 inches, this puzzle brings the classic art from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to joyous life.

A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. ***'The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA'One of my favourites' TINA KNOWLES'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya AngelouIn this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination, violence and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity' JAMES BALDWIN'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights movement. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. The fourth volume of her enthralling autobiography finds Maya Angelou immersed in the world of black writers and artists in Harlem, working in the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr.'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

The sequel to I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Though fiercely loving the world, as a black woman, she also knows its cruelty. Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the sequel to her bestselling I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou is a young mother in California, unemployed, embarking on brief affairs and transient jobs in shops and nightclubs, turning to prostitution and the world of narcotics. Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humour and humanity.'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAIt is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes of Jimmy Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter Johnson: the first black woman officer in the Merchant Marines, purveyor of a gambling business and rooming house, and mother to Maya Angelou, beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAAnyone who's read the classic, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, knows Maya Angelou was raised by her paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. In Mom and Me and Mom, Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away and unearths the well of emotions Angelou experienced long afterward as a result. While Angelou's first six autobiographies reveal about her out in the world, influencing and learning from statesmen and cultural icons, her final autobiography and conclusion to the series, Mom and Me and Mom, shares the intimate, emotional story about her own family.'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY 'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

A memoir about home and belonging, from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Though she fiercely loves the world, as a black woman, she also knows its cruelty. Angelou has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In the fifth volume, Maya Angelou emigrates to Ghana only to discover that 'you can't go home again', but she comes to a new awareness of love and friendship, civil rights and slavery - and the myth of mother Africa.'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In her third marvellous volume, music and her son are the focus of Maya Angelou's life. She is on the edge of a new world: marriage, show business and a triumphant tour of Porgy and Bess.'She moved through the world with unshakeable calm, confidence and a fierce grace . . . She will always be the rainbow in my clouds' OPRAH WINFREY'She was important in so many ways. She launched African American women writing in the United States. She was generous to a fault. She had nineteen talents - used ten. And was a real original. There is no duplicate' TONI MORRISON

Maya Angelous självbiografiska bok Brev till min dotter. Medborgarrättskämpe, författare, sångerska, dansare - många beteckningar kan sättas på Maya Angelou, som dock är mest känd som författare, bland annat till genombrottsromanen Jag vet varför burfågeln sjunger. Nu kommer - för första gången på svenska - hennes bok Brev till min dotter (som kunde haft undertiteln "...om jag hade någon" eftersom Angelou bara fick ett barn och det var en son). Angelou berättar helt öppet om tuffa, bittra förhållanden under sin uppväxt. Hon våldtas och misshandlas men lyckas både klara livhanken och behålla självrespekten. När hon som sextonåring har sex första gången, inte med en pojkvän utan bara av nyfikenhet med en pojke hon råkat på, blir hon med barn och föder sin son, som glädjande nog välkomnas till livet av både henne och hennes kärleksfulla anhöriga. Angelou utstrålar en vibrerande energi i livets alla skeden, hon är imponerande ihärdig. Hon möter på mäktigt motstånd för att hon är kvinna och svart och av enkelt ursprung men har en förmåga att aldrig ge sig utan istället systematiskt ta sig igenom alla svårigheter. Sensmoralen i denna kloka bok är att man bör vara vaksam på sina egna fördomar, vilket Angelou illustrerar med exempel från sitt eget liv - hon förmedlar en rad generande missbedömningar som hon själv gjort sig skyldig till. Hon tror att det är kackerlackor i de fattiga marockanernas kaffe, men inser att de bjudit henne på dyrbara russin. Hon smutsar ner en middagsduk i Senegal i tron att det är en matta som gästerna inte anses fina nog att beträda. Hon skrämmer upp en servitris i North Carolina när hon fått vänta för länge på sin frukost, men upptäcker att det inte alls beror på hennes hudfärg som hon förmodat utan på att kocken har slut på majsgryn. Den övergripande lärdomen är att man inte ska tro att man vet allt, även om författarens pondus ibland kan låta påskina att hon gör det. Detta är en bok som stannar i minnet. Den handlar om livets största glädjeämnen och bittraste besvikelser och om att kunna stå upp för sin sak. Maya Angelous bok Brev till min dotter i översättning och med efterord av Christian Ekvall. ISBN 978-91-7742-588-5. Högkvalitetspapper, sydda ark, mjuka pärmar med flikar, 144 sidor.

Majja Andzhelu - odna iz glavnykh amerikanskikh pisatelnits i poetess vtoroj poloviny XX veka. "Poetomu ptitsa v nevole pojot" (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) - glavnaja kniga Andzhelu - povestvuet o ejo vzroslenii na polnom predrassudkov juge SSHA. Otdannaja vmeste s bratom na popechenie babushki, Majja s detstva stalkivaetsja s neponjatnymi ej, rebjonku, neprijatiem i rasizmom i v vosem let podvergaetsja nasiliju, s posledstvijami kotorogo budet vynuzhdena miritsja vsju zhizn. Poetichnaja i moschnaja, "Poetomu ptitsa v nevole pojot" uzhe vtoroj vek menjaet umy ljudej i svoej mudrostju pomogaet chitateljam pereosmyslit sobstvennuju zhizn. Perevodchik: Glebovskaja Aleksandra