Phänomenale Frauen

For millions of women in the United States, their own self-confidence began with a poem by Maya Angelou. Her words gave faith in an independent life. Thus she became an icon of African-American literature. Phenomenal Women is Maya Angelou's declaration of love for a community of destiny and a selection of her best poems, now in German translation for the first time. Violence, repression, pain, Maya Angelou knew it all. As a victim of abuse, as a black adolescent girl in the racially segregated South, as a single mother in postwar San Francisco. Despite it all, she never lost hope, never lost confidence, because she had a voice, a language, the magic words. And the struggle for self-assertion turned into poetry during her life, her work became a hymn to women's resilience and greatness, and she herself became a poet of the century. "Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.".