Maya Angelou "I Shall Not Be Moved" Signed First Edition, Later Printing w/COA [Fine/Fine]

Personally signed by Maya Angelou, America's favorite poet and Presidential Medal of Freedom winning author.

New York, Random House 1990. Maya Angelou "I Shall Not Be Moved" Signed First Edition, Later Printing. Hardcover book with dust jacket as issued. This volume has been personally signed/inscribed by Maya Angelou directly onto the half-title page: "Robert, Joy! Maya Angelou". Includes bookseller issued COA. Fine/Fine.

Signed First Edition, Sixth Printing with number line "9 8 7 6" on the copyright page.

Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood's first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet. As a civil rights activist, Angelou worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

"I Shall Not Be Moved"

In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind.

This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free. Filled with bittersweet intimacies and ferocious courage, these poems are gems—many-faceted, bright with wisdom, radiant with life.

I Shall Not Be Moved is author and poet Maya Angelou's fifth collection of poetry, published by Random House in 1990. She had written four autobiographies and published four other volumes of poetry up to that point. She considered herself a poet and a playwright and her poetry has also been successful, but she is best known for her seven autobiographies, especially her first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She began, early in her writing career, alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry. Most critics agree that Angelou's poems are more interesting when she recites them.

The poems in I Shall Not Be Moved focus on themes of hard work, universal experiences of humans, the struggle of African Americans, and love and relationships. Like most of her poetry, the collection has received little serious critical attention, although most reviews have been positive.

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In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free. Filled with bittersweet intimacies and ferocious courage, these poems are gems--many-faceted, bright with wisdom, radiant with life.

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In her first book of poetry since "Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind. This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free. Filled with bittersweet intimacies and ferocious courage, these poems are gems--many-faceted, bright with wisdom, radiant with life.

Maya Angelou 

Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, was raised in the perilously dangerous times of segregated Arkansas. Dr. Angelous is globally respected and admired for her poetry, role as a historian, loved author, impeccable actress, playwright, African American civil-rights activist, producer and director. Her lectures throughout the USA and in foreign countries are spellbinding. I heard her once in a ceremony to remember ERic Butterworth in New York City and will never forget her resonating voice and the profound simplicity of the intricate human images she manifested by way of a poem whose linguistic rhythm was key in contributing to a sense of vitality and initiative and progress that rises and is never apathetic. In 1981, she became a Reynolds professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She has authored and published a total of ten best selling books and many magazine articles earning her coveted Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations. President William Jefferson Clinton asked her to write and deliver a poem at his January 1993 presidential inauguration.

Dr. Angelou, who speaks fluent French, Spanish, Italian and West African Fanti, began her career in dramatic arts and dance. She espoused a South African freedom fighter and lived in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo where she edited the Arab Observer, the sole English-language news weekly in the Middle East. In Ghana, she was feature editor of The African Review and was a professor at the University of Ghana. In the turbulent 1960's, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. asked Ms. Angelou to become the northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Maya Angelou was among the first African-American women to achieve high spots in the bestsellers lists this respective book that is SIGNED for your consideration namely "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," This book is a riveting acount of her childhood and is indeed a seminal American literary feat. In addition, it is a boundless story of inspriation and the power of resilience with dignity. Although the story is intimately individualistic, the theme is collective and inclusive being the love and universality of all lives. Angelou has frequently stated that we have a moral obligation to love. What a conept in a world that seems to be very focused on destruction. Indeed, she usually signs with the powerul word PEACE. She spoke of her early passion for the writings of William Shakespeare, and offered her audience excerpts from the poems of several prominent African-Americans authors, including James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar.

In 1975 the Ladies Home Journal Woman of the Year Award in communications was bestowed upon her. She also received a great many honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year. President Gerald Ford appointed her to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is on the board of the national American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Movie Director's Guild.