| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
95 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A new collection by a much celebrated poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," which probes the private griefs and dreams of a working-class family, to the emblematic grace of a living legend like Rosa Parks, who acquiesced to public life in order to "serve the public good," these poems explore the intersection of individual fates with the grand arc of history. If there are heroes, Dove maintains, they continually reinvent themselves, as each of us must do each morning. |
| Contents |
Cameos: July, 1925 -- Night -- Birth -- Lake Erie skyline, 1930 -- Depression years -- Homework -- Graduation, grammar school -- Painting the town -- Easter Sunday, 1940 -- Nightwatch ; The son. -- Freedom : bird's-eye view: Singsong -- I cut my finger once on purpose -- Parlor -- The first book -- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967 -- Freedom : bird's-eye view -- Testimonial -- Dawn revisited. -- Black on a Saturday night: My mother enters the work force -- Black on a Saturday night -- The musician talks about "process" -- Sunday -- The camel comes to us from the barbarians -- The Venus of Willendorf -- Incarnation in Phoenix. -- Revenant: Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA approved -- Revenant -- On Veronica -- There came a soul -- The peach orchard -- Against repose -- Against self-pity -- Götterdämmerung -- Ghost walk -- Lady Freedom among us -- For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000. -- On the bus with Rosa Parks: Sit back, relax -- "The situation is intolerable" -- Freedom ride -- Climbing in -- Claudette Colvin goes to work -- The enactment -- Rosa -- QE2 ; Transatlantic crossing ; Third Day -- In the lobby of the Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C. -- The pond, porch-view : six P.M., early spring. |
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African American women civil rights workers -- Poetry.
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Civil rights movements -- Poetry.
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African American women -- Poetry.
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African Americans -- Poetry.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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African American women civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799481
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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American poetry.
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| Added Author |
Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
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| ISBN |
9780393047226 (hardcover) |
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0393047229 (hardcover) |
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9780393320268 (Paperback) |
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039332026X (Paperback) |
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