{"product_id":"poems-isbn-9780553255768","title":"Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival.”—JAMES BALDWIN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTenderly, 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.“The wisdom, rue and humor of her storytelling are borne on a lilting rhythm completely her own, the product of a born writer's senses nourished on black church singing and preaching, soft mother talk and salty street talk, and on literature: James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Shakespeare and Gorki.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Black, bitter and beautiful, she speaks of our survival.”\u003cb\u003e—James Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaya Angelou\u003c\/b\u003e was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including \u003ci\u003eI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of a Woman,\u003c\/i\u003e she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them \u003ci\u003ePhenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMother\u003c\/i\u003e. Maya Angelou died in 2014.","brand":"Bantam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305330266341,"sku":"NP9780553255768","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553255768.jpg?v=1767734910","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/poems-isbn-9780553255768","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}