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Rita Dove's
Collected Poems: 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of US poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's 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, industrialisation and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of
Grace Notes, the 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.
About the author
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2023 she received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
Summary
Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.
