A Song Flung Up to Heaven (Paperback: Bantam Trade Pb: 224 pages)

Enhanced Muze Note

[A] quick-paced, frothy and sometimes amusing account that captures the texture of her life as an articulate artist -- an original boho -- well known among the black glitterati during a time of social upheaval. This book is what we get when we ask our mama or grandma to tell us again the story of when we were born.

Enhanced Muze Note

[R]eflective, meditative, calming.

Enhanced Muze Note

Angelou's proximity to crucial and horrifying events, like the Watts riots and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, lends the memoir a gripping sense of urgency.

Enhanced Muze Note

Concise and remarkably readable, slight in its chronological span (1964- 68), it could be considered as a series of beautifully crafted vignettes...For anyone who has not yet experienced Maya Angelou's autobiographical rondo, it will be a treat to find that this is not so much an ending as a beginning.A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN is the culmination of a unique autobiographical achievement, a glorious celebration of indomitable spirit.