And Still I Rise [Paperback]

Maya Angelou (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1980

These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.


From the Hardcover edition.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

If your originals of these two popular titles (LJ 9/1/78, LJ 3/15/70, respectively) have seen better days, these reprints offer affordable, high-quality replacements.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

'Maya Angelou writes from the heart and her language rings clear and true ... Whether joyful, sad or playful, her poems speak with delicacy and depth of feeling' - Publishers Weekly 'It is true poetry she is writing ... it has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity' - M.F.K. Fisher --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Bantam Books (June 1980)
• ISBN-10: 0553131362
• ISBN-13: 978-0553131369
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,906,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And Still I Rise is next to Kipling's 'IF 'and "Invictus', October 29, 2004

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Josephine Thompson "The Torn Trilogy" (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And Still I Rise (Hardcover)

...Invictus is by William E. Henley......I do not like much poetry.....but 'Still I Rise', is one of the most moving and powerful pieces of literature of our day. You can feel the rumblings of motivation rising within you as you read it---it summons the power of our ancestors as you read it... YOU FEEL this poem with all your heart--or I fear you have no heart and you remember that feeling for years after you have read it!
It is a magnificent poem that the author not only wrote, but earned through her own life.
This book would make excellent Christmas gifts of inspiration.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring book of true feelings!, June 20, 2000

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Inspired to the fullest! (Birmingham, AL (USA)) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And Still I Rise (Hardcover)

Maya Angelou is a wonderful woman and an inspiration. Her books are like sweet melodies that flow through your head. I am 13, when I read her words of rhythm and rhyme I can't stop reading. She writes words of wisdom and truth and that's something most authors don't do! This book is a blessing and I say again a true inspiration!

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Still I Rise" and Rising, November 4, 2002

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Still I Rise (Hardcover)

This book is filled with wonderful, powerful poetry that really awakened me to the troubles of African Americans in that time of history. Diego Rivera's paintings in the book are staggering and breathtaking. This is a must-see for any ameteur or lover of poetry.