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Rita Dove

Born

in Akron, Ohio, The United States

August 28, 1952

Website

http://people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/

Genre

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 · 11,350 ratings · 1,233 reviews · 98 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) 3.95 avg rating — 1,410 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
	Selected Poems of Rita Dove 3.97 avg rating — 873 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
	Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems 4.08 avg rating — 817 ratings — published 2021 — 4 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 4.02 avg rating — 612 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 4.17 avg rating — 527 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 3.99 avg rating — 489 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 3.99 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2009 — 10 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 3.90 avg rating — 282 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 3.89 avg rating — 264 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: 1974–2004 4.24 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2016 — 6 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 only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”
― Rita Dove

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Which book would you like to see in the category Fiction - Poetry for the Fall 2017 Group Read?

The Aeneid

21 votes 21.9%

Wildly Into the Dark: Typewriter Poems and the Rattlings of a Curious Mind

16 votes 16.7%

Aniara: An Epic Science Fiction Poem

16 votes 16.7%

Good Poems edited by Garrison Keillor

11 votes 11.5%

Selected Poems by Rita Dove

7 votes 7.3%

Mouthful of Forevers

6 votes 6.3%

One

5 votes 5.2%

Under the Mesquite

5 votes 5.2%

Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems

5 votes 5.2%

Triangles

4 votes 4.2%

96 total votes

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