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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 · 11,896 ratings · 1,319 reviews · 94 distinct works • Similar authors

	Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series) 3.96 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — published 1986 — 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
	Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems 4.07 avg rating — 914 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
	Selected Poems of Rita Dove 3.97 avg rating — 887 ratings — published 1993 — 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
	Mother Love 4.02 avg rating — 652 ratings — published 1995 — 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
	The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry 4.16 avg rating — 562 ratings — published 2011 — 9 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 3.98 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 1999 — 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
	Sonata Mulattica really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 323 ratings — published 2009 — 9 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 — 297 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 3.91 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1994 — 18 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 4.26 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2016 — 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

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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 we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”
― 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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