Grace Notes, Poems

Dove, Rita

ISBN 10: 0393306968 / ISBN 13: 9780393306965

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0393306968I4N00

Riassunto:

With this her fourth book of poems, Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary American letters. The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that? if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch? can break your heart. Isn't this what every lyric poem wishes to be, the poet asks as she explored autobiographical events, most from childhood and the cusp of adolescence, and then turns to the shadowy areas of regret and memory. The word as talisman is another of her concerns, and finally, in the section that most typifies the lilt of grace notes, Dove considers the embellishments below the melody of daily life.

L'autore: 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.

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Titolo: Grace Notes, Poems
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 1991
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket