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Product Description: Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.Rita Dove's Collected Poems 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U...read more

Hardcover:

9780393285949 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 17, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.

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Gathers poems about slavery and freedom, home and family, and the past by America's youngest poet laureate

Hardcover:

9780679430834 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Gathers poems about slavery and freedom, home and family, and the past by America's youngest poet laureate

Paperback:

9781878818737 | Bilingual edition (Sheep Meadow Pr, August 1, 1999), cover price $19.95
9780679750802 | Vintage Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Gathers poems about slavery and freedom, home and family, and the past by America's youngest poet laureate

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780679431022 | Random House, October 1, 1993, cover price $14.00

Prebinding:

9781439505410 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $22.95

Product Description: 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.

Hardcover:

9780393047226 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1999), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems expresses both the disappointments and awakenings of everyday life, and the acts of subtle heroism that can have resounding effects

Paperback:

9780393320268 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems expresses both the disappointments and awakenings of everyday life, and the acts of subtle heroism that can have resounding effects.

Prebinding:

9781435242302 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 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.

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A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner. Reprint.

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9780393327441 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1, 2006), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner.

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A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner. 20,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780393059878 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Poetry celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner.

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Product Description: 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...read more

Hardcover:

9781578065493 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Biography -- Literary Criticism--> In 1993, Rita Dove (b.

Paperback:

9781578065509 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, June 1, 2003, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is an Oedipal tragedy of interracial love set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina. The play has been read on Broadway, and has had full-stage productions at The Kennedy Center, The National Theatre in London, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, among others...read more

Paperback:

9781885266941 | 3 edition (Story Line Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove, is an Oedipal tragedy of interracial love set on a plantation in pre-Civil War South Carolina.

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An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry
By Rita Dove (editor)

Hardcover:

9780684842813 | Scribner, September 1, 2000, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

Paperback:

9780743200332 | Scribner, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

Reinforced:

9780606192088 | Demco Media, October 1, 2000, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: An anthology of contemporary poets presents works that reflect the diversity in American poetry

By Rita Dove (introduced by) and Natasha D. Trethewey

Paperback:

9781555973094 | Graywolf Pr, September 1, 2000, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: The poet Melvin B. Tolson (1898-1966) was once recognized as one of black America's most important modernist voices. Playful, fluent, and intellectually sophisticated, his poems stirred up significant praise, and some lively criticism, during his lifetime but have been out of print for decades and essentially left out of the literary canon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Rita Dove (introduced by), Raymond Nelson (editor) and Melvin Beaunorus Tolson

Hardcover:

9780813918648 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The poet Melvin B.

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Hardcover:

9780819553034 | Wesleyan Univ Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $19.95

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Gathers poems that recast the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone in a variety of settings, from a patio in Arizona to the pyramids in Mexico, as they explore the complex mother-daughter bond (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780393038088 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Gathers poems that recast the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone in a variety of settings, from a patio in Arizona to the pyramids in Mexico, as they explore the complex mother-daughter bond

Paperback:

9780393314441 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Gathers poems that recast the ancient Greek story of Demeter and Persephone in a variety of settings, from a patio in Arizona to the pyramids in Mexico, as they explore the complex mother-daughter bond

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Product Description: Book by Dove, Rita

Hardcover:

9780844408743 | Library of Congress, April 1, 1995, cover price $25.01 | About this edition: Book by Dove, Rita

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Retells the story of Oedipus set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina

Paperback:

9780934257749 | Story Line Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Retells the story of Oedipus set on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina

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Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as 'artist in residence' at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up

Paperback:

9780679742401 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as 'artist in residence' at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up

Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as 'artist in residence' at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up

Hardcover:

9780679416043 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as 'artist in residence' at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up

Reinforced:

9780606177535 | Demco Media, June 1, 1993, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as 'artist in residence' at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up

Prebinding:

9780613235181 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $25.80 | About this edition: Returning to her Ohio hometown to work as 'artist in residence' at a local school, puppeteer Virginia King is forced to confront her memories of her own childhood, racial bigotry, family, and growing up

Poems deal with fantasy, childhood, family life, school, friendship, dreams, mortality, and memories (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780393306965 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Poems deal with fantasy, childhood, family life, school, friendship, dreams, mortality, and memories

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A collection of stories about Black people trying to assert their humanity in a world operating on misconception

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9780813913087 | Univ of Virginia Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories about Black people trying to assert their humanity in a world operating on misconception

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Product Description: Contributors include: Stephen Ajay, Dick Bakken, Angela Ball, Lisa Bernstein, Earl S. Braggs, Cyrus Cassells, Marilyn Chin, Peter Cooley, Jamie Diamond, Mark Doty, Martín Espada, Julie Fay, Anita N. Feng, Maria Flook, Chris Gilbert, Marilyn Hacker, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Andrew Hudgins, Colette Inez, Lisa Koger, Rika Lesser, Rika Lesser, Timothy Nolan, Eileen Pollack, David Ray, Steven Schwartz, Laurie Sheck, Betsy Sholl, Kathleen Spivack, Alison Stone, Deborah Tall, Eric Trethewey, Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Carolyne Wright, Linda Zisqui...read more
By Rita Dove (editor) and Fred Viebahn (editor)

Paperback:

9780933277939 | Ploughshares Books, May 1, 1990, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Contributors include: Stephen Ajay, Dick Bakken, Angela Ball, Lisa Bernstein, Earl S.

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Product Description: A reissuing of The Yellow House on the Corner, the debut collection of poetry by Rita Dove.

Paperback:

9780887480928, titled "The Yellow House on the Corner" | 2 edition (Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, October 1, 1989), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A reissuing of The Yellow House on the Corner, the debut collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
9780915604401 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, September 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A reissuing of The Yellow House on the Corner, the debut collection of poetry by Rita Dove.

Paperback:

9780887480218 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.

Paperback:

9780915604791 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr Center for, June 1, 1983, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.
9780887481475 | Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr, May 1, 1983, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.

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