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American Smooth: Poemsby Rita DoveISBN 0393327442 (0-393-32744-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Smooth: Poems'Book summary:"Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy."--New York Times Book Review
An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the grace of an Astaire, Rita Dove's magnificent poems pay homage to our kaleidoscopic cultural heritage; from the glorious shimmer of an operatic soprano to Bessie Smith's mournful wail; from paradise lost to angel food cake; from hotshots at the local shooting range to the Negro jazz band in World War I whose music conquered Europe before the Allied advance. Like the ballroom-dancing couple of the title poem, smiling and making the difficult seem effortless, Dove explores the shifting surfaces between perception and intimation. [via] 
The Best American Poetry 2000by David Lehman, Rita DoveISBN 0606192085 (0-606-19208-5)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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Grace Notesby Rita DoveISBN 0393306968 (0-393-30696-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Jonah's Gourd Vineby Rita DoveISBN 0060916516 (0-06-091651-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jonah's Gourd Vine'Book summary:The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published in 1934, it was praised by Carl Sandburg as "a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable." [via]
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Mother Loveby Rita DoveISBN 0393038084 (0-393-03808-4)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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On the Bus With Rosa Parksby Rita DoveISBN 039332026X (0-393-32026-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Bus With Rosa Parks'Book summary:If you find memoirs more immediate than contemporary poetry, novels more compelling, history more vivid, then you haven't read Rita Dove. A former poet laureate of the United States, Dove is at the height of her powers in On the Bus with Rosa Parks. Her range is extraordinary. The opening "Cameos" sequence reads like a compressed colloquial epic of one hard-up but lively family--Lucille with her "bright and bitter" eyes, her wandering husband, Joe, their bookish son and seven daughters ("their / names fantastic, myriad / as the points of a chandelier"). There are magnificent occasional pieces--"Incarnation in Phoenix" on breastfeeding a newborn ("I'm not ready for this motherhood stuff"); "Against Self-Pity" ("pure misery a luxury /one never learns to enjoy"); "The First Book" ("Dig in: / You'll never reach bottom"). "Rosa," the centerpiece of the title sequence, reads almost like haiku as Dove captures Rosa Parks's historic act of refusal in 12 taut lines.
And then there are poems that stand alone for their unique electrifying strangeness: "The Venus of Willendorf," in which Dove ponders the ancient sacred mystery of man's worship of the female body, and "Lady Freedom Among Us," in which Freedom is incarnated as a bag lady--"she who has brought mercy back into the streets / and will not retire politely to the potter's field."
Of the many notes that Dove hits in this volume, the most welcome is pure unadulterated delight, as in "Dawn Revisited": "Imagine you wake up / with a second chance..." Imagine: Dove has done the hard part. All we have to do is open this splendid volume, sit back, and enjoy the ride. --David Laskin [via]
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Selected Poemsby Rita DoveISBN 0679430830 (0-679-43083-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Through the Ivory Gateby Rita DoveISBN 0679742409 (0-679-74240-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Through the Ivory Gate'Book summary:A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love--and truths about her family. Author readings.
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- Through the Ivory Gate: ISBN 0613235185 (0-613-23518-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Through the Ivory Gate: ISBN 0517196956 (0-517-19695-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Through the Ivory Gate: ISBN 0606177531 (0-606-17753-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Through the Ivory Gate: A Novel: ISBN 0679416048 (0-679-41604-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Through the Ivory Gate: ISBN 0679742409 (0-679-74240-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Through the Ivory Gate: ISBN 0613235185 (0-613-23518-5)
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