{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-rita-dove-isbn-9780679750802","title":"Selected Poems of Rita Dove","description":"Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people.  Along with a new introduction and poem, \u003cb\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e comprises Dove's collections \u003cb\u003eThe Yellow House on the Corner\u003c\/b\u003e, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; \u003cb\u003eMuseum\u003c\/b\u003e, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, \u003cb\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives.  Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's \u003cb\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/b\u003e is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling.\"Remarkable . . . a poet of dramatic force.\" --\u003cb\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Consistently accomplished . . . Dove's is a brilliant mind that seeks for itself the widest possible play, an ever-expanding range of reference, the most acute distinctions, and the most subtle shadings of meaning. . . . Her is a major career.\" --Arnold Rampersad, \u003cb\u003eCallaloo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dove's poems, rich with elegant phrasing and Southern spice, blast tradition by pulling readers into other lives and then dazzle them with an often startling mastery of language.\" --\u003cb\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rita Dove . . . is a devoted and subtle storyteller [whose] gifts are evoking, and sometimes exalting, the everyday moments we live by but may neglect or forget, the music of her words issuing a message of uncanny integrity and calm.  Though often writing of private experience (mothering, mourning death, watching rain), she never seems to lose sight of the world beyond.\" --\u003cb\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/b\u003eRiat Dove, Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995, was born and raised in Akron, Ohio.  She has published the novel \u003cb\u003eThrough the Ivory Gate\u003c\/b\u003e, a collection of stories, a verse drama, a book of essays and five books of poetry, among them \u003cb\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/b\u003e, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.  The recipient of numerous literary fellowships and awards, she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia and lives near Charlottesville with her husband, Fred Viebahn, and their daughter, Aviva.\u003cb\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was ill, lying on my bed of old papers,\u003cbr\u003ewhen you came with white rabbits in your arms;\u003cbr\u003eand the doves scattered upwards, flying to mothers,\u003cbr\u003eand the snails sighed under their baggage of stone . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow your tongue grows like celery between us;\u003cbr\u003eBecause of our love-cries, cabbage darkens in its nest;\u003cbr\u003ethe cauliflower thinks of her pale, plump children\u003cbr\u003eand turns greenish-white in a light like the ocean's.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI was sick, fainting in the smell of teabags,\u003cbr\u003ewhen you came with tomatoes, a good poetry.\u003cbr\u003eI am being wooed.  I am being conquered\u003cbr\u003eby a cliff of limestone that leaves chalk on my breasts.Including the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Thomas and Beulah","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304575062245,"sku":"NP9780679750802","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679750802.jpg?v=1767736321","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/selected-poems-of-rita-dove-isbn-9780679750802","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}