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1	Mother Love: Poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist Marking the end of Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove's two-year term as Poet Laureate of the United States, this new collection again confirms her extraordinary power and grace as a poet. "Mother Love" calls upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone to examine the tenacity of love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Selected poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist Brought together for the first time in one volume are the astonishing poems of the nation's new Poet Laureate--the youngest poet so named, as well as the first African-American chosen for the position. Contains The Yellow House on the Corner, Museum, and Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Thomas and Beulah: Poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $2.51! new only from $13.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist In this lyric narrative inspired by history, a former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner imaginatively re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist. The son of a white woman and an 'African Prince' travels to Vienna to meet Beethoven. The composer's subsequent sonata is dedicated to him but he, exuberant with acclaim, ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $11.93! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist A verse play based on the story of Oedipus the King, but set on a South Carolina plantation. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $8.95!
6	Domestic Work more books like this by Natasha Trethewey, Rita Dove (Selected by) add to wishlist In this debut collection, Natasha Trethewey draws moving domestic portraits of people trying to keep it all together, both personally and collectively. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $7.94! \| SVS
7	Conversations with Rita Dove more books like this by Earl G Ingersoll (Editor) add to wishlist Biography -- Literary Criticism--> In 1993, Rita Dove (b. 1952) became the nation's youngest and first female African American Poet Laureate. This collection of interviews offers a fascinating portrait of her. Having published over a half-dozen collections of poetry, Dove won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for "Thomas and Beulah." In addition, she ... see all copies from $19.75! new only from $24.50!
8	On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist From the opening sequence, probing the private griefs and dreams of a working class family, to the emblematic grace of the living legend Rosa Parks, these poems explore the intersection of individual fates with the grand arc of history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Grace Notes: Poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist The fourth collection of poetry from Pullitzer Prize winner Rita Dove. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Best American Poetry 2000 more books like this by Rita Dove (Editor) add to wishlist Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove edited this edition of the annual offering of poetry's "best of," featuring Ammons, Collins, Walcott, and Wilbur, among others. A list of former editors' picks for the best American poems of the century supplements the volume. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	American Smooth: Poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist A New York Times Notable Book for 2004. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Multicultural Voices: Literature from the United States more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Museum more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	The Darker Face of the Earth more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist A verse play based on the story of Oedipus the King, but set on a South Carolina plantation. see all copies from $2.50! new only from $25.59! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Yellow House on the Corner: Poems more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	In Buckeye Country: Photos & Essays of Ohio Life more books like this by Larry Smith (Editor), Rita Dove (Designer), Scott Russell Sanders (Designer) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.40! new only from $12.00! \| signed copies
17	Darker Face of Earth (First Edition) more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist A verse play based on the story of Oedipus the King, but set on a South Carolina plantation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Harlem Gallery and Other Poems of Melvin B Tolson more books like this by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, Raymond Nelson (Editor), Rita Dove (Introduction by) add to wishlist Born in 1898 in Missouri, Melvin Tolson grew up in an intellectually sophisticated African-American family and went on to be a college teacher and a major--if relatively unheralded--African-American poet. This book is the first to collect all of his work, most of which fell out of print after his death in 1966. The intricate, highly allusive poems ... see all copies from $18.20! new only from $29.78! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Fifth Sunday: Stories more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Thomas and Beulah more books like this by Rita Dove, James M. Cain add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Through the Ivory Gate more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist The winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry employs her remarkable storytelling ability to weave together an unforgettable novel that captures the spirit of the turbulent years in America following the Vietnam War--radiant prose that "hovers between Colette's intimacies and (Nadine) Gordimer's uncompromising revolt of the imagination against ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22	The Poet's World more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $43.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Best American Poetry more books like this by Rita Dove (Editor) add to wishlist Former Poet Laureate Rita Dove edited this edition of the annual offering of poetry's "best of," featuring Ammons, Collins, Walcott, and Wilbur, among others. A list of former editors' picks for the best American poems of the century supplements the volume. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99!
24	Selected Poems of Rita Dove more books like this by Rita Dove add to wishlist This brilliant collection includes selections from Museum, The Yellow House on the Corner, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah. see all copies from $4.89! new only from $16.80!
25	The Sky is a Long Way to Jump!: An Exchange of Poems & Illustrations about Sky, Sun, Water, Earth Between City and Suburban Children more books like this by Robert Hass, Mary N. Woodrich (Editor), Rita Dove add to wishlist see all copies from $24.00! new only from $34.50!

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