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A review by jonscott9
A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
3.0
Angelou's writing is by turns poetic and plain here, and it works well. She speaks to tragic events of the mid- to late-1960s, when Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both killed. (She was on board with the latter man's civil rights work.)
A firsthand race-riots account and personal relationships receive her gentle but firm treatment as well. Funny tidbits appear in her telling of working and writing for a theater after singing at a lounge in Hawaii and being upstaged by a bigger-voiced singer-actress who shall remain nameless.
This graceful short book is the sixth installment of autobiography from Angelou. It's a line of books that began with the classic I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I haven't read that book yet but intend to fix that this year, daunted or distressed as I already am about the subject matter.
A firsthand race-riots account and personal relationships receive her gentle but firm treatment as well. Funny tidbits appear in her telling of working and writing for a theater after singing at a lounge in Hawaii and being upstaged by a bigger-voiced singer-actress who shall remain nameless.
This graceful short book is the sixth installment of autobiography from Angelou. It's a line of books that began with the classic I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. I haven't read that book yet but intend to fix that this year, daunted or distressed as I already am about the subject matter.