Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Maya Angelou

Random House, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 145 pages

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her unique, spellbinding way, she re-creates intimate personal experiences and gives us her wisdom on a wide variety of subjects. She tells us how a house can both hurt its occupants and heal them. She talks about Africa. She gives us a profile of Oprah. She enlightens us about age and sexuality. She confesses to the problems fame brings and shares with us the indelible lessons she has learned about rage and violence. And she sings the praises of sensuality.

Contents

• A House Can Hurt a Home Can Heal: 5
• Aging: 23
• Rural MuseumsSouthern Romance: 87
• The Rage Against Violence: 113
• Those Who Really Know Teach: 135

About the author

Maya Angelou has written five volumes of autobiography, including the bestsellingI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and many collections of poetry, as well asOn the Pulse of Morning,  the poem she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton. All of these poems have been gathered together inThe  Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou.
    


Maya Angelou is currently Reynolds Professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
    


Also by Maya Angelou
    


AUTOBIOGRAPHY    


I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings    


Gather Together in My Name    


Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas    


The Heart of a Woman    


All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
    


POETRY    


Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie    


Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well    


And Still I Rise    


Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?    


I Shall Not Be Moved    


On the Pulse of Morning    


Phenomenal Woman    


The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou    


A Brave and Startling Truth
    


ESSAYS    


Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Bibliographic information

• Title: Even the Stars Look Lonesome
• Author: Maya Angelou
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Random House, 1997
• ISBN: 0375500316, 9780375500312
• Length: 145 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary