Rita Dove
About Rita Dove
“The event went really well. Ms. Dove was really well received by our students and the community. She was extremely accommodating and just a joy to be around. She and her husband are like a duo so it was almost a two-for-one. It was such an amazing experience to hear her speak and share her experiences and work. Students, staff, board members and residents are still thanking us for bringing her to the city. ”
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Books by Rita Dove
“Sonata Mulattica: Poems” (2009)
detailing The Volatile Relationship Between The Black Violinist George Bridgetower And Beethoven, This Is A Masterful Collection (los Angeles Times).publishers Weeklythis 12th Collection From The Former U.s. Poet Laureate And Pulitzer Prize Recipient Is Her Third Book-length Narrative Poem: It Follows The Real Career Of The Violin Prodigy George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860), A Former Pupil Of Haydn, As Well As The Grandson/ Of An African Prince, Or So His Promoters And Teachers In England Said. Moving To Vienna During The Napoleonic Wars, The Violinist Met And Befriended The Famously Moody Beethoven, Who Was Prepared To Dedicate His Famously Difficult Kreutzer Sonata To Bridgetower Until A Rivalry For The Same Woman Drove Them Apart. Dove Tells Bridgetower's Story, And Some Of Beethoven's And Haydn's, In A Heterogenous Profusion Of Short Poems, Some Almost Prosy, Some Glittering In Their Technique. In Quatrains, A Double Villanelle, What Looks Like Found Text, Short Lines Splayed All Over A Page And Attractive Description, Dove Renders Bridgetower's Frustrated Genius: Music Played For The Soul Is Sheer Pleasure;/ To Play Merely For Pleasure Is Nothing/ But Work. Dove Does Not Always Achieve Such Subtleties-those Who Loved Her Early Work May Think This Book Too Long: Few, Though, Will Doubt The Seriousness Of Her Effort, Her Interest At Once In The History Of Classical Music And The Changing Meanings Of Race. (apr.)copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.
“The Darker Face Of Earth: A Verse Play” (1994)
A Play In Verse About A White Woman Who Has A Black Child By A Slave In Pre-civil War South Carolina. The Author Is A Pulitzer Prize Winner And Is The Present U. S. Poet Laureate. This Verse Play, Based On The Story Of Oedipus & Placed Within The Context Of Slavery, Is Set On A Plantation In Antebellum South Carolina. By Rita Dove.
“Selected Poems Of Rita Dove” (1993)
Selected Poems Of Rita Dove
“Through The Ivory Gate” (1993)
Through The Ivory Gate
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