Selected Poems of Rita Dove

Jacket Description/Flap: 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. Review Quotes: " Remarkable . . . a poet of dramatic force." --The New York Review of Books " Consistently accomplished . . . Dove's is a brilliant mind that seeks for itself the widest possible play, an ever-expanding range of reference, the most acute distinctions, and the most subtle shadings of meaning. . . . Her is a major career." --Arnold Rampersad, Callaloo " Dove's poems, rich with elegant phrasing and Southern spice, blast tradition by pulling readers into other lives and then dazzle them with an often startling mastery of language." --Boston Globe " Rita Dove . . . is a devoted and subtle storyteller [whose] gifts are evoking, and sometimes exalting, the everyday moments we live by but may neglect or forget, the music of her words issuing a message of uncanny integrity and calm. Though often writing of private experience (mothering, mourning death, watching rain), she never seems to lose sight of the world beyond." --NewsweekBiographical Note: Riat Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. She has published the novel Through the Ivory Gate, a collection of stories, a verse drama, a book of essays and five books of poetry, among them Thomas and Beulah, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987. The recipient of numerous literary fellowships and awards, she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and lives near Charlottesville with her husband, Fred Viebahn, and their daughter, Aviva. Review Quotes: "Remarkable . . . a poet of dramatic force." --The New York Review of Books "Consistently accomplished . . . Dove's is a brilliant mind that seeks for itself the widest possible play, an ever-expanding range of reference, the most acute distinctions, and the most subtle shadings of meaning. . . . Her is a major career." --Arnold Rampersad, Callaloo "Dove's poems, rich with elegant phrasing and Southern spice, blast tradition by pulling readers into other lives and then dazzle them with an often startling mastery of language." --Boston Globe "Rita Dove . . . is a devoted and subtle storyteller [whose] gifts are evoking, and sometimes exalting, the everyday moments we live by but may neglect or forget, the music of her words issuing a message of uncanny integrity and calm. Though often writing of private experience (mothering, mourning death, watching rain), she never seems to lose sight of the world beyond." --NewsweekPublisher Marketing: Brought together for the first time in one volume are the astonishing poems of the nation's new Poet Laureate--the youngest poet so named, as well as the first African-American chosen for the position. Contains The Yellow House on the Corner, Museum, and Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Review Citations:

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1994 pg. 113 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Library Journal 04/01/1997 pg. 94 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Booklist 10/15/1993 pg. 412 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1998 pg. 563 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 340 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2004 pg. 594 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 440 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 12/31/2008 pg. 763 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 546 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2013 pg. 910 (EAN 9780679750802, Paperback)

Booklist 10/15/1993 pg. 412 (EAN 9780679430834, Hardcover)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/1997 pg. 347 (EAN 9780679430834, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 09/27/1993 (EAN 9780679430834, Hardcover)

Library Journal 11/15/1993 (EAN 9780679430834, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Dove, Rita 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.