Product details
ISBN
9780393327441
Published
2006-03-17
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
173 gr
Height
211 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
144
Author
Biographical note
Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2023 she received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia."Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy." The 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.
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"Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy."--New York Times Book Review
Product details
ISBN
9780393327441
Published
2006-03-17
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Weight
173 gr
Height
211 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
13 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
144
Author