{"product_id":"collected-poems-1974-2004-by-rita-dove-author","title":"Collected Poems: 1974–2004 by Rita Dove (Author)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThree decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRita Dove’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCollected Poems 1974–2004\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove’s fresh reflections on adolescence in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Yellow House on the Corner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and her irreverent musings in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMuseum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She sets the moving love story of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e against the backdrop of war, industrialization, and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGrace Notes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the exquisite reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMother Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the troubling rapids of recent history in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOn the Bus with Rosa Parks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the homage to America’s kaleidoscopic cultural heritage in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAmerican Smooth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e all celebrate Dove’s mastery of narrative context with lyrical finesse. With the “precise, singing lines” for which the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e praised her, Dove “has created fresh configurations of the traditional and the experimental” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WW Norton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67754220323132,"sku":"9780393285949","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/61u_ONdZqlL._SL1200.jpg?v=1792258787","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/collected-poems-1974-2004-by-rita-dove-author","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}