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Selected poems / Rita Dove.
Author
Dove, Rita.
Uniform Title
Poems. Selections
Edition
1st Vintage ed.
ISBN
9780679750802 paperback
0679750800 paperback
0679750800 paperback
Publication Details
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 210 p. ; 21 cm.
Call Number
PS3554.O884 A6 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.54
Summary
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.
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Includes index.
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The yellow house on the corner
Museum
The hill has something to say
In the bulrush
My father's telescope
Primer for the nuclear age
Thomas and Beulah
Mandolin
Canary in bloom.
Museum
The hill has something to say
In the bulrush
My father's telescope
Primer for the nuclear age
Thomas and Beulah
Mandolin
Canary in bloom.