A Song Flung Up to Heaven
by Angelou, Maya
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- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0375507477
- ISBN 13
- 9780375507472
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About This Item
A tight and unmarked stated First Edition- " A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King's Poor Peoples March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird."-One Dog Ear.
Synopsis
Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then went to San Francisco. 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.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23962
- Title
- A Song Flung Up to Heaven
- Author
- Angelou, Maya
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375507477
- ISBN 13
- 9780375507472
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 8 vo
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