Rita Dove: 4 books
by Rita Dove
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
**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...
by Rita Dove
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2000
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.
by Rita Dove
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Detailing the volatile relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beethoven, this is a "masterful collection" (Los Angeles Times).
The son of a white woman and an “African Prince,” George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780–1860) travels to Vienna to meet “bad-boy”...
by Rita Dove
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Published to coincide with its British premiere at the Royal National Theatre, The Darker Face of the Earth