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    Amazing Peace

    A Christmas Poem

    Author Maya Angelou
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    Hardcover
    $16.00 US
    Random House Group | Random House
    5.13"W x 6.76"H x 0.33"D   | 4 oz | 96 per carton
    On sale Dec 01, 2005 | 32 Pages | 9781400065585
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    This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.

    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.
    © Dwight Carter
    Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014. View titles by Maya Angelou
    It is the Glad Season.
    Thunder ebbs to silence and lightning sleeps quietly in the corner.
    Floodwaters recede into memory.
    Snow becomes a yielding cushion to aid us
    As we make our way to higher ground.
    Copyright © 2005 by Maya Angelou. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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    This dazzling Christmas poem by Maya Angelou is powerful and inspiring for people of all faiths.

    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.

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    © Dwight Carter
    Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Heart of a Woman, she wrote numerous volumes of poetry, among them Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, On the Pulse of Morning, and Mother. Maya Angelou died in 2014. View titles by Maya Angelou

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    It is the Glad Season.
    Thunder ebbs to silence and lightning sleeps quietly in the corner.
    Floodwaters recede into memory.
    Snow becomes a yielding cushion to aid us
    As we make our way to higher ground.
    Copyright © 2005 by Maya Angelou. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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