{"product_id":"and-still-i-rise-a-book-of-poems","title":"And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaya Angelou’s unforgettable collection of poetry lends its name to the documentary film about her life, And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePretty women wonder where my secret lies.\u003cbr\u003eI’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size\u003cbr\u003eBut when I start to tell them,\u003cbr\u003eThey think I’m telling lies.\u003cbr\u003eI say,\u003cbr\u003eIt’s in the reach of my arms,\u003cbr\u003eThe span of my hips,\u003cbr\u003eThe stride of my step,\u003cbr\u003eThe curl of my lips.\u003cbr\u003eI’m a woman\u003cbr\u003ePhenomenally.\u003cbr\u003ePhenomenal woman,\u003cbr\u003eThat’s me.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThus begins “Phenomenal Woman,” just one of the beloved poems collected here in Maya Angelou’s third book of verse. These poems are powerful, distinctive, and fresh—and, as always, full of the lifting rhythms of love and remembering. And Still I Rise is written from the heart, a celebration of life as only Maya Angelou has discovered it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“It is true poetry she is writing,” M.F.K. Fisher has observed, “not just rhythm, the beat, rhymes. I find it very moving and at times beautiful. It has an innate purity about it, unquenchable dignity. . . . It is astounding, flabbergasting, to recognize it, in all the words I read every day and night . . . it gives me heart, to hear so clearly the caged bird singing and to understand her notes.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Embargoed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44870357090480,"sku":"9780394502526","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/3902\/4560\/files\/9780394502526.jpg?v=1764975023","url":"https:\/\/embargoededitions.com\/products\/and-still-i-rise-a-book-of-poems","provider":"Embargoed Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}