Rita Dove
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and...
Author
Language
Español
Description
'Thomas y Beulah', de la laureada Rita Dove, es un libro de poesía que, a diferencia de la mayoría de los poemarios contemporáneos, exige una lectura «en secuencia», como una narración en verso. Los poemas relatan en sendas partes las vidas de una pareja afroestadounidense de 1900 a 1969 y constituyen una muestra del interés de Dove por «el individuo atrapado en la telaraña de la Historia», es decir, por las cuestiones de género, raza y...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human drama of classical proportions. Behind the facade of antebellum Southern plantation life unfolds a mysterious tale of interracial love and strife, guilt and suffering, as both slave and master struggle against a fate that threatens to eclipse them altogether.