Collected Poems: 1974-2004
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (532 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393285944 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dove has often been praised, rightly so, for making all of this look easy, as she does throughout this essential collection. Dove’s poems have earthiness, originality, power and range. Dove's poems have earthiness, originality, power and range. Despair and loss are among her central themes, but so is the hunt for bedrock human pleasures.” (Dwight Garner - New York Times)“Reminds readers why she is one of the nation’s most respected literary figures.Essential.” (Washington Post) . -Craig Morgan Teicher, The Los Angeles TimesMs. Now, in Collected Poems: 1974-2004, we witness the evol
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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. 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).. 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. 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