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Author: Rita Dove Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781578065509 Category : African American women poets Languages : en Pages : 232
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Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Thomas and Beulah and the nation's first female African American Poet Laureate
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781578065509 Category : African American women poets Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
Collected interviews with the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Thomas and Beulah and the nation's first female African American Poet Laureate
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0393867773 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from “perhaps the best public poet we have” (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America’s, and the world’s, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or the contemporary efforts of Black Lives Matter, a girls’ night clubbing in the shadow of World War II or the doomed nobility of Muhammad Ali’s conscious objector stance, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history’s grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives. Meticulously orchestrated and musical in its forms, Playlist for the Apocalypse collects a dazzling array of voices: an elevator operator simmers with resentment, an octogenarian dances an exuberant mambo, a spring cricket philosophizes with mordant humor on hip hop, critics, and Valentine’s Day. Calamity turns all too personal in the book’s final section, “Little Book of Woe,” which charts a journey from terror to hope as Dove learns to cope with debilitating chronic illness. At turns audaciously playful and grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocalypse takes us from the smallest moments of redemption to catastrophic failures of the human soul. Listen up, the poet says, speaking truth to power; what you’ll hear in return is “a lifetime of song.”
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 039324914X Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 89
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A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos", to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780679750802 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 244
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Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives. Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's Selected Poems is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling.
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393285952 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 487
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Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume. Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove’s fresh reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of war, industrialization, and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of Grace Notes, the exquisite reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of Mother Love, the troubling rapids of recent history in On the Bus with Rosa Parks, and the homage to America’s kaleidoscopic cultural heritage in American Smooth all celebrate Dove’s mastery of narrative context with lyrical finesse. With the “precise, singing lines” for which the Washington Post praised her, Dove “has created fresh configurations of the traditional and the experimental” (Poetry magazine).
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: Penguin Group ISBN: 0143106430 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 656
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An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393327441 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 143
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A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner. Reprint.
Author: Anthony Burgess Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781604730968 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 220
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Collected interviews with the British author of A Clockwork Orange, ReJoyce: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader, and other works
Author: Rita Dove Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated ISBN: 9780393314441 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 77
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Gathers poems that recast the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone in a variety of settings, from a patio in Arizona to the pyramids in Mexico, as they explore the complex mother-daughter bond
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Rita Dove
Author: Anthony Burgess
Author: Rita Dove