Can You Give Information On Maya Angelou's Book 'Phenomenal Woman'?

Maya Angelou's book 'Phenomenal Woman' is a book of poetry that is written and composed in a beautiful manner. The title of this book is based on the poem of the same name "Phenomenal woman" contained in the book.

The book is available in hard cover and consists of thirty two pages. It was published in February in the year 2000. The publisher was called Random House.

The poem on which the name of this book is based is a phenomenal poem. This poem tells us of where we stand as women at the beginning of a new century.  In a very clear and strong voice, Maya Angelou vividly and beautifully reminds us of our towering, increasing strength and beauty.  This is a poem that exudes wisdom, conviction, strength, beauty, and the rekindling of our belief in the glory and the soft touches of our gender.

The book also contains extraordinary paintings by Paul Gauguin. This book is a futuristic tribute to all that is beautiful and wondrous in women.  Gauguin has painted women with exuberance, energy, beauty and joy, portraying their strength and their beauty.  His portraits are of all sorts of women : women of color, power and women who look out at the viewer with the same silent strength and inner mystery that Angelou commemorates in her poem.

Gauguin was an artist who died twenty-five years even before the poetess Angelou was born. And the two of them lived very different lives in extremely different environments and cultures, yet their work combines perfectly in this one magnificent book.

This book can serve as the best gift for that special woman in your life, be that your wife,  your girlfriend, a relative, a teacher or a friend.  In today's world, any woman would relate to the words of the this beautiful poem written by Maya Angelou and the images created by the painter Paul Gauguin.