Collected Poems: 1974-2004 - Rilegato

Dove, Rita

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ISBN 10: 0393285944 ISBN 13: 9780393285949

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2016

Riassunto

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. 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. 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. 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).

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"There are so many casual pleasures in Ms. Dove's poetry that the precision and dexterity in her work the darkness, too can catch you unawares... Ms. Dove's poems have earthiness, originality, power and range." --New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

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

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393285944
• ISBN 13: 9780393285949
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 432