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Mom & Me & Mom (2013) is the seventh and final book in author Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies. The book was published shortly before Mother's Day and Angelou's 85th birthday. It focuses, for the first time in her books, on Angelou's relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter.
Four years later, when Angelou was seven and her brother eight, the children's father "came to Stamps without warning" [10] and returned them to their mother's care in St. Louis. At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Freeman.
Angelou wrote the book for the thousands of women who saw her as a mother figure, and to share the wisdom gained throughout her long life. Letter consists of 28 short essays, which includes a few poems and a commencement address, and is dedicated to "the daughter she never had". [ 2 ]
Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world.. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
Maya Angelou “My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. ... "Sons are the anchors of a mother's life." The Pioneer Woman ... Justin Baldoni's wife posts heartfelt tribute to husband ...
Born in St. Louis in 1928, Angelou spent much of her childhood with her grandmother in small-town Arkansas, but it was during a brief return to St. Louis in the mid-1930s that her mother’s ...
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women is a book of poems by Maya Angelou, published in 1995. [1] The poems in this short volume were published in Angelou's previous volumes of poetry. "Phenomenal Woman," "Still I Rise," and "Our Grandmothers" appeared in And Still I Rise (1978) and "Weekend Glory" appeared in Shaker, Why Don't You Sing ...
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me is a 2006 collection of poems by Maya Angelou, praising mothers. The book entered The New York Times Best Seller list the week of May 21, 2006 at number thirteen. [ 1 ]