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1 de sept. de 1998 · Now, in a continuation of her bestseller Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, she shares many of her most treasured personal experiences, reflecting on the ideas and inspirations that have touched her heart. Even the Stars Look Lonesome is a profound series of essays that explores aspects of life both big and small, with Maya Angelou ...
5 de ago. de 1997 · Even the Stars Look Lonesome imparts the lessons of a lifetime. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY JUL 31, 1997. As in Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, famed poet and author Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) casts a keen eye inward and bares her soul in a slim volume of personal essays.
Even though she never went to college, she taught American studies for years at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. In 1993, she became only the second poet in United States history to write and recite an original poem at a Presidential Inauguration when she read On the Pulse of Morning at President Bill Clinton's Inauguration Ceremony.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome and Angelou’s work in general can be linked to the slave narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. According to Lupton, Even the Stars Look Lonesome is a “narrative voyage, which moves geographically from America to Africa, [and] echoes the patterns of the slave narratives – with its search for freedom, for self-development, for community ...
22 de ene. de 2014 · The audio version of Even the Stars Look Lonesome, a collection of unabridged essays read by Maya Angelou, plays as if you are spending an evening with the author herself.You'll feel as if, by some stroke of luck, Angelou had settled down for a pleasant chat over dinner and a glass of wine, telling stories about her family and sharing her powerfully stated opinions about the African American ...
Even The Stars Look Lonesome is a collection of short stories and poems by Maya Angelou that expresses her as a caring individual whose purpose is to give sound advice. She is definitely qualified ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Maya Angelou writes like a song, and like the truth.”—The New York Times Book Review “Everything about Maya Angelou is transcendental. She has something to tell you now. Listen.”—Robert Fulghum, The Washington Post Book World I have written of the black ...
