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Through the Ivory Gate
Riat Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. She has published the novel Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from ... [... more]
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Conversations with Rita Dove (Literary Conversations Series)
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9781578065509 ISBN: 157806550X Number Of Pages: 198 Publication Date: 2003-05-23 [... more]
$22.00
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Mother Love: Poems
Best african American female Poet: Rita Dove book, Mother Loves: Poems, Is one of the best book I've ever read. Its so lovely, and eligant. Thank You. America's Poet Laureate!: Rita Dove is not as well-known as Nikki Giovanni or Maya Angelou but she is [... more]
$12.95
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Thomas and Beulah
Amazon.com Review: The poems in this unusual book tell a story, forming a narrative almost like a realistic novel. Read in sequence as intended, they tell of the lives of a married black couple (not unlike Dove's own grandparents) from the early part of [... more]
$12.95
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The Best American Poetry 2000
Amazon.com Review: In her introduction to The Best American Poetry 2000, Rita Dove offers the key to honest appreciation: read the work for itself, not for its creator's name and rank on the great chain of poetic being. With luck it will take the top of [... more]
$16.00
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Selected Shorts: Getting There from Here (Selected ...
Such fun!: I really enjoyed this audiobook, particularly the first story. It had me laughing out loud! There is a good variety here, I would say something for everyone. of the 6 stories, only 1 did I think was so-so, the other 5 were great! Overall, a [... more]
$28.00
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Grace Notes: Poems
Aged Grace: What Ms. Dove does here seems dated. Some of her poetry cannot help but resound with the complaint of an aged woman watching young men and remembering death, though the sound of her poems does say something else. They reveal her sheer talent, [... more]
$11.95
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Mother Love
Best african American female Poet: Rita Dove book, Mother Loves: Poems, Is one of the best book I've ever read. Its so lovely, and eligant. Thank You. America's Poet Laureate!: Rita Dove is not as well-known as Nikki Giovanni or Maya Angelou but she is [... more]
$17.95
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Selected Poems
Wonderful poems: Rita Dove's poetry is challenging: lyric, attentive, sure; yet it works in quieter veins than many more exhibitionist poets of the past thirty years. In the volumes collected in this "Selected Poems" Dove explores race, [... more]
$13.95
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American Smooth: Poems
Thrilling Collection: Dove's keen, deliberate voice in "American Smooth" is as brilliant as ever. In each poem, the gut-true, but never easy, illuminations of individual subject become gorgeous music. Dove masterfully evokes specific moments of [... more]
$13.95
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Darker Face Of Earth (First Edition)
The Darker Face of the Earth: Rita Dove's poetry permeates this remarkable new play which uses the Oedipal myth as a structural device as well as a means to enter the world of human slavery as practiced in South Carolina circa 1829-1840. Central to the [... more]
$10.95
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The Darker Face of the Earth
A review of the play that also recommends the book: Rita Dove's poetry won her a Pulitzer in her mid-thirties; she went on to became the youngest (and first African-American) Poet Laureate of the United States. It should not be surprising, then, that her [... more]
$14.00
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