Rita Dove (Author of Thomas and Beulah)

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Rita Dove

Born

in Akron, Ohio, The United States

August 28, 1952

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Poetry

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Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and musician, lives in Charlottesville, where she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 11,667 ratings · 1,282 reviews · 103 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) 3.96 avg rating — 1,451 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems 4.07 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Poems of Rita Dove 3.98 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Love 4.01 avg rating — 628 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry 4.16 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Bus With Rosa Parks 3.97 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sonata Mulattica really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Smooth 3.91 avg rating — 290 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darker Face of the Earth 3.90 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 1994 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems: 1974鈥�2004 4.25 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2016 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you can't be free, be a mystery.”
― Rita Dove

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“From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.”
― Rita Dove

tags: poem, poetry, writing

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“If we鈥檙e going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It鈥檚 the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”
― Rita Dove

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January 2022 Group Read: Classic AA Fiction (80s Edition).

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The Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker

18 votes 30.0%

Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor

13 votes 21.7%

A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines

12 votes 20.0%

Dessa Rose by Sherley Anne Williams

7 votes 11.7%

Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove

5 votes 8.3%

The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley

5 votes 8.3%

60 total votes

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