Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem

Author(s): Maya Angelou, Dr.

Poetry

In this beautiful, deeply moving poem, Maya Angelou inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward," she writes, "and speak the word aloud. Peace." Read by the poet at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree at the White House on December 1, 2005, Maya Angelou's celebration of the "Glad Season" is a radiant affirmation of the goodness of life and a beautiful holiday gift for people of all faiths.

General Information

  • : 9781400065585
  • : Random House Publishing Group
  • : Random House Publishing Group
  • : 0.113
  • : 31 July 2006
  • : United States
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Maya Angelou, Dr.
  • : Hardback
  • : 811.54
  • : 32

More About The Product

Maya Angelou, poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director, was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry collections, including I Shall Not Be Moved and Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?; and the celebrated poem "On the Pulse of Morning," which she read at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton.