Rita Dove
Dove, Rita - 1952–, American poet, b. Akron, Ohio. Her first poetry collection, Ten Poems, was published in 1977. Her verse is at once concise, precise, and evocative. History as seen from an African-American perspective is perhaps her most important theme: the history of her country, as in the slavery poem sequence of The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), and the history of her own Read More...
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By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry ("'Either I'm Nobody, or I'm a Nation'" by Rita Dove begins on p. 103)
by Molly McQuade. 440 pgs.
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Contemporary Black American Poets and Dramatists ("Rita Dove" begins on p. 17)
by Harold Bloom. 216 pgs.
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Black American Women Poets and Dramatists ("Rita Dove b. 1952" begins on p. 59)
by Harold Bloom. 247 pgs.
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Reading the Scars: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth, in African American Review
by Theodora Carlisle. 17 pgs.
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"When the Pear Blossoms / Cast Their Pale Faces on / The Darker Face of the Earth": Miscegenation, the Primal Scene, and the Incest Motif in Rita Dove's Work, in African American Review
by Malin Pereira. 17 pgs.
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Divided Loyalties: Literal and Literary in the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song and Rita Dove, in MELUS
by Patricia Wallace. 17 pgs.
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Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove: Poets Redefining, in The Journal of Negro History
by Jennifer Walters. 8 pgs.
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Giving Their Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets (Chap. 11 "A Chorus of Voices: Rita Dove")
by Steven Ratiner. 269 pgs.
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