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Selected Poems of Rita Dove

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ISBN-10: 0679750800

ISBN-13: 9780679750802

Edition: N/A

Authors: Rita Dove

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.98" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and musician, lives in Charlottesville, where she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Introduction
This Life
The Bird Frau
Robert Schumann, Or: Musical Genius Begins with Affliction
Happenstance
Small Town
The Snow King
Sightseeing
Upon Meeting Don L. Lee, In a Dream
"Teach Us to Number Our Days"
Nigger Song: An Odyssey
Five Elephants
Geometry
Champagne
Night Watch
The Secret Garden
1963
D.C.
Planning the Perfect Evening
Augustus Observes the Sunset
Wake
Back
Belinda's Petition
The House Slave
David Walker (1785-1830)
The Abduction
The Transport of Slaves From Maryland to Mississippi
Pamela
Someone's Blood
Cholera
The Slave's Critique of Practical Reason
Kentucky, 1833
Adolescence - I
Adolescence - II
Adolescence - III
The Boast
The Kadava Kumbis Devise a Way to Marry for Love
Spy
First Kiss
Then Came Flowers
Pearls
Nexus
Notes from a Tunisian Journal
The Sahara Bus Trip
For Kazuko
Beauty and the Beast
His Shirt
Great Uncle Beefheart
The Son
Corduroy Road
O
The Fish in the Stone
The Ants of Argos
Pithos
Nestor's Bathtub
The Hill Has Something to Say
The Copper Beech
Tou Wan Speaks to Her Husband, Liu Sheng
Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Siena
Receiving the Stigmata
Boccaccio: The Plague Years
Fiammetta Breaks Her Peace
November for Beginners
Reading Holderlin on the Patio with the Aid of a Dictionary
Shakespeare Say
Three Days of Forest, a River, Free
Banneker
In the Bulrush
Delft
Ike
Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove
At the German Writers Conference in Munich
Grape Sherbet
Roses
Sunday Night at Grandfather's
Centipede
My Father's Telescope
Song. Summer
Anti-Father
To Bed
A Father out Walking on the Lawn
The Sailor in Africa
Early Morning on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Freeway
Why I Turned Vegetarian
Eastern European Eclogues
Flirtation
Exeunt the Viols
The Left-Handed Cellist
Lines Muttered in Sleep
Primer for the Nuclear Age
Parsley
Notes
The Event
Variation on Pain
Jiving
Straw Hat
Courtship
Refrain
Variation on Guilt
Nothing Down
The Zeppelin Factory
Under the Viaduct, 1932
Lightnin' Blues
Compendium
Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury
Aircraft
Aurora Borealis
Variation on Gaining a Son
One Volume Missing
The Charm
Gospel
Roast Possum
The Stroke
The Satisfaction Coal Company
Thomas at the Wheel
Taking in Wash
Magic
Courtship, Diligence
Promises
Dusting
A Hill of Beans
Weathering Out
Motherhood
Anniversary
The House on Bishop Street
Daystar
Obedience
The Great Palaces of Versailles
Pomade
Headdress
Sunday Greens
Recovery
Nightmare
Wingfoot Lake
Company
The Oriental Ballerina
Chronology
Index of Titles