I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
ANGELOU, Maya.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between": First Edition of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings; Inscribed by Maya Angelou
New York: Random House, 1969.
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First edition of the author’s critically acclaimed first book. Octavo, original first issue book, with the top edge stained red. Inscribed and dated by the author, “___ ______ Joy! Maya Angelou 1/2014.” Fine in a fine dust jacket with a single closed tear. A superior copy.
"This testimony from a black sister marks the beginning of a new era in the minds and hearts of all black men and women... I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity. I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood, when the people in books were more real than the people one saw every day, have I found myself so moved... Her portrait is a biblical study in life in the midst of death" (James Baldwin).
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