Rita Dove

Broschiertes Buch

On the Bus with Rosa Parks

Poems

Beschreibung

In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos", to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.

Autor

Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2023 she received the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blue Guides Limited of London
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9780393320268
• ISBN-10: 039332026X
• Artikelnr.: 21920169