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Title: A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0-375-50747-7 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Notes from an eyewitness to history
Comment: "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" is the continuation of Maya Angelou's series of autobiographical narratives. This volume opens in the mid 1960s as Angelou returns to the United States from Africa with the intention of working with Malcolm X. The narrative follows Maya's life in Hawaii, California, and New York.
Maya reflects on her work as a stage performer and aspiring writer, and reminisces about her relationships with her son, her mother, and her friends. The book is really fascinating as it tells of her relationships and encounters with many noteworthy people: Martin Luther King Jr., Nichelle Nichols, Rosa Guy, and others. The author paints a particularly warm and moving portrait of the great writer and activist James Baldwin.
"Song" continues to explore many of the important themes of her other books, such as the relationship between Africans and African-Americans. Angelou does a good job of capturing intimate human relationships and placing them in the context of great movements in history. The book also looks at the genesis of her celebrated book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
This is a well-written, very engaging book; I read all 212 pages in literally a single evening. I recommend as companion texts to this wonderful book the following: the previous volumes of Angelou's autobiography, the essays of James Baldwin, the autobiography of Malcolm X, Audre Lorde's "Zami," and any good collection of King's essays and speeches.
Rating: 4
Summary: Maya, Sings Your Song
Comment: In book six of her autobiography series, "A Song Flung Up to Heaven",Maya Angelou vividly recounts the many memorable occurrences taking place between the years of 1964 through 1968. Angelou's first hand experience of the riot in Watts invokes images of the burning frustrations of the people of that area and time. The opportunities of working alongside historic figures such as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were short lived and a sour subject of intense pain for her.
Maya tells of her trip from Africa to Los Angeles and then to
New York. During this time she experiences the absence of her son, who stayed in Africa to continue his education, and the lost love of her African spouse. With the help of family and friends Maya gains the strength to rise again. The story ends at the beginning of her first book in this bio series.
In this reader's opinion, a song flung up to heaven is a silent prayer for the strength to go on in this life, and the prayer always returns with the needed relief through the thoughtfulness of those around us. The joy of this book was listening to the author read it in her own voice through recorded books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Still I Rise
Comment: THIS POEM WAS THE BEST POEM I HAVE EVER READ AND I LOVE TO READ IT OVER AND OVER SO I GIVE THIS POEM 5 STARS
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Title: The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553380095 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 09 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou ISBN: 067973404X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553260669 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553251996 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou ISBN: 0553569074 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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