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In this edition of Moyers & Company, Bill Moyers welcomes former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, who received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Dove served two terms as Poet Laureate, the youngest and the first African-American to be named to that prestigious position. Through an intimate conversation and select readings, Moyers and Dove explore American history, language, culture, and ideas. They also talk about the responsibility and...
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"Understanding Rita Dove serves as a critical introduction to the poetry of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was also the first African American poet laureate of the United States. Through close readings of seven poetry collections, Pat Righelato offers detailed analyses of Rita Dove's thematic concerns and artistic development while bringing to light the musical sense of form and expression of history that permeates Dove's work. While underscoring...
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"Pulitzer Prize-winner and former poet laureate of the United States Rita Dove has written prolifically since the early 1970s. In this, the first full-length critical study of her entire body of work by an American scholar, Malin Pereira traces the development of Dove's literary voice, looking at the ways she combines racial specificity with the perspective of the unraced universal. Pereira examines Dove's poetry, fiction, drama, and literary criticism...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winner before she was 35, Rita Dove is the youngest poet to have held the post of Poet Laureate of the United States (1993-1995) In this program with Bill Moyers, Dove talks about her life and work, the relationship between poetry and power, and her plans for taking poetry to the people. The program also features Dove reading extensive selections from her works (including her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Thomas and Beulah) and...
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One of America's premier poets, Rita Dove has won a Pulitzer Prize and was the first African American and the youngest individual to hold the post of U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995). She appeals to a broad public by means of readings, stage productions, and the media; and her work resists being typecast according to categories of race, class, and gender. Although Dove's work has sparked interest and debate among many scholars, including Helen Vendler...
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