Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women by Maya Angelou, Hardcover, 9780679439240 | Buy online at The Nile
Departments
 Free Returns*

Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

Four Poems Celebrating Women

Author: Maya Angelou  

Hardcover

Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a beautiful gift edition that provides a feast for the eyes as well as the heart. (Poetry)

Read more
$24.86
Or pay later with
Check delivery options
Hardcover

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Summary

Maya Angelou, the bestselling author of On the Pulse of Morning, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, and other lavishly praised works, is considered one of America's finest poets. Here, four of her most highly acclaimed poems are assembled in a beautiful gift edition that provides a feast for the eyes as well as the heart. (Poetry)

Read more

Description

Phenomenal Woman is a phenomenal poem that speaks to us of where we are as women at the dawn of a new century. In a clear voice, Maya Angelou vividly reminds us of our towering strength and beauty. Here is a poem that radiates wisdom and conviction, renewing our belief in the glory and tender mercies of our gender. Married to the extraordinary paintings Paul Gauguin, this book becomes a visionary commemoration of all that is wondrous in women. Gauguin painted women with exuberance and joy, reveling in their strength and beauty. His portraits are of women of color, women of power, women who gaze out at the viewer with the same quiet resolve and inner mystery that Angelou celebrates in her poem. Though Gauguin died twenty-five years before Angelou was born and these two artists lived very different lives in very different cultures, their work coalesces perfectly in this one glorious volume. Here is the ultimate gift for the phenomenal woman in your life-wife, lover, relative, teacher, friend. There's hardly a woman alive today who will not relate to the words of the poet Maya Angelou and the images of painter Paul Gauguin.

Read more

About the Author

MAYA ANGELOU is a poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," she has also written five poetry collections, including "I Shall Not Be Moved" and "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?," as well as the celebrated poem "On the Pulse of Morning," which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton, and "A Brave and Startling Truth," written at the request of the United Nations and read at its fiftieth anniversary. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Random House (NY) | Random House USA Inc
Published
31st January 1994
Edition
1st
Pages
32
ISBN
9780679439240

Returns

This item has a special returns policy. Please read it carefully.

Authorized returns, for Grantham Book Services (GBS) Third Party Publishers, should be sent to:

Grantham Book Services Returns Centre
Trent Road
Grantham
Lincolnshire
NG31 7XQ
$24.86
Or pay later with
Check delivery options