Rita Dove
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Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate of the United States, is the recipient of many honors, among them the Pulitzer Prize, the National Humanities Medal, and the Heinz Award. Among her recent publications are the poetry collection On the Bus with Rosa Parks and the drama The Darker Face of the Earth. vis mere She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia vis mindre
Image credit: Dove in December 2017 By Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64542050
Værker af Rita Dove
The best American poetry — Redaktør — 12 eksemplarer
The Island Women of Paris 1 eksemplar
Gospel [poem] 1 eksemplar
Daystar 1 eksemplar
Fifth Grade Autobiography (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 eksemplar
Украдено време 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 919 eksemplarer
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Bidragyder — 275 eksemplarer
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Bidragyder — 159 eksemplarer
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Advisory Editor; Bidragyder — 151 eksemplarer
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory (1730) — Bidragyder — 124 eksemplarer
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Bidragyder — 115 eksemplarer
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Bidragyder — 114 eksemplarer
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Bidragyder — 95 eksemplarer
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Bidragyder — 89 eksemplarer
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Bidragyder — 45 eksemplarer
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Grand Fathers: Reminiscences, Poems, Recipes, and Photos of the Keepers of Our Traditions (1999) — Bidragyder — 25 eksemplarer
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Bidragyder — 23 eksemplarer
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (1994) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Multicultural Voices: Literature from the United States (Points of departure) (1997) — Forord — 16 eksemplarer
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Bidragyder — 11 eksemplarer
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
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- Kanonisk navn
- Dove, Rita
- Juridisk navn
- Dove, Rita Frances
- Andre navne
- DOVE, Rita Frances
DOVE, Rita - Fødselsdato
- 1952-08-28
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- VS
- Fødested
- Akron, Ohio, VS
- Bopæl
- Akron, Ohio, VS
Charlottesville, Virginia, VS - Uddannelse
- Miami University of Ohio (BA)
University of Iowa (MFA)
Eberhard Karls University - Erhverv
- poet
teacher - Organisationer
- Phi Beta Kappa (Senator ∙ governing board)
Academy of American Poets
Fellowship of Southern Writers
University of Virginia - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Charles Frankel Prize (1996)
Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award (1986)
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry ( [1987])
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1993-1995)
National Humanities Medal (1996)
Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities (1996) (vis alle 20)
NAACP Great American Artist Award
Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2004-2006)
Emily Couric Leadership Award (2003)
Duke Ellington Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
Sara Lee Frontrunner Award (1997)
Phi Beta Kappa
Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service (2006)
Chubb Fellow at Yale University (2007)
Library of Virginia's Lifetime Achievement Award (2008)
Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal (2009)
Premio Capri (2009)
National Metal of Arts (2012)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2022)
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2023) - Kort biografi
- Rita Dove is the author of several books of poetry. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Dove also served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she teaches at the University of Virginia. [2013]
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Collected Poems: 1974-2004 af Rita Dove
Many of my favorite collections bundled together in one great book. Dove's poems blend the personal with the historical showing us pivotal moments, injustices endured with courage and intelligence, through the concrete examples from dusting, to cooking, to building zeppelins, to a company picnic to war on the other side of the ocean. Well crafted but what always grabs me by the throat in Dove's poem is the persona, speakers who take us inside the mind whose day to day being is constantly shaping and being shaped by history.… (mere)
This is not my first reading and it won't be my last. Thomas and Beulah is a great love letter from the poet to her grandparents, and whether or not the stories contained are exact they provide the kind of truth that only a poet can give.
Splitting the collection into two strong Points of View, shows art dealing with opposites, male/female, light/dark, black/white -- the poems start in a place that feel deeply personal. But the great poems that start with the personal, by being specific touch on something revealing about their culture and the history. This collection has much to teach about the Northern Migration and the effects of race, economics, labor and segregation on the psyche. Worth multiple reads.… (mere)
Splitting the collection into two strong Points of View, shows art dealing with opposites, male/female, light/dark, black/white -- the poems start in a place that feel deeply personal. But the great poems that start with the personal, by being specific touch on something revealing about their culture and the history. This collection has much to teach about the Northern Migration and the effects of race, economics, labor and segregation on the psyche. Worth multiple reads.… (mere)
Delightful. Sonnets, exploring Demeter and Persephone, I loved every thought.
These are powerful poems, some about public figures, some deeply personal. I truly appreciated Ms. Dove's end notes because I often understood that I was reading about an important historical event or person, but couldn't quite place it. I was happy to be educated.
The book is broken into six sections. While I found meaning throughout, my favorite sections were "After Egypt" (with poems such as "Elevator Man, 1949") and "Little Book of Woe" (about her MS diagnosis; "Soup" is perhaps my favorite in this collection). And don't skip the book's intro, "Prose in a Small Space." It sets the tone.
Playlist for the Apocalypse was an NPR, NYT, and Publishers Weekly best book of 2021 and also won the 2022 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry. I can see why. It's not that Dove writes about life-changing events, big and small, but how she writes about them. And thank goodness she does. As summed up in "Climacteric":
"...If loving every minute spent jostling syllables / while out in the world others slog through their messes / implies such shuttered industry is selfish or irresponsible // then I'm the one who's fled. Ta-ta! I'm not ashamed; / each word caught right is a pawned memory, humbly reclaimed."… (mere)
The book is broken into six sections. While I found meaning throughout, my favorite sections were "After Egypt" (with poems such as "Elevator Man, 1949") and "Little Book of Woe" (about her MS diagnosis; "Soup" is perhaps my favorite in this collection). And don't skip the book's intro, "Prose in a Small Space." It sets the tone.
Playlist for the Apocalypse was an NPR, NYT, and Publishers Weekly best book of 2021 and also won the 2022 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Poetry. I can see why. It's not that Dove writes about life-changing events, big and small, but how she writes about them. And thank goodness she does. As summed up in "Climacteric":
"...If loving every minute spent jostling syllables / while out in the world others slog through their messes / implies such shuttered industry is selfish or irresponsible // then I'm the one who's fled. Ta-ta! I'm not ashamed; / each word caught right is a pawned memory, humbly reclaimed."… (mere)
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