Grace Notes: Poems - Softcover

Dove, Rita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393306968 ISBN 13: 9780393306965

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

With this her fourth book of poems, Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary American letters. The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that? if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch? can break your heart. Isn't this what every lyric poem wishes to be, the poet asks as she explored autobiographical events, most from childhood and the cusp of adolescence, and then turns to the shadowy areas of regret and memory. The word as talisman is another of her concerns, and finally, in the section that most typifies the lilt of grace notes, Dove considers the embellishments below the melody of daily life.

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Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She has been awarded many literary and academic honours, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987 and the 1996 National Humanities Medal.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393306968
• ISBN 13: 9780393306965
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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