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15. Sept. 2021 · Rita Dove: It's really important for me, because what we still don't have in this world, at least in this country particularly, is a sense of true communication. When you sit down and read a poem ...
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Rita Dove received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Spanning forty-plus years with translations on all continents, her oeuvre includes many genres; besides her numerous poetry collections – most recently Playlist for the Apocalypse – she has authored short stories, essays, the novel Through the Ivory Gate,
Rita Dove wurde 1952 in der Industriestadt Akron, Ohio, geboren. Nach ihrem Studium der Anglistik, Germanistik und Musik an der Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, ermöglichte ihr ein Fulbright-Stipendium das Studium Europäischer Literaturen an der Universität Tübingen. Anschließend ging sie an die University of Iowa, um Creative Writing zu studieren und bald selbst auch zu […]
Rita Dove diente 1999 bis 2000 als „Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry“ für die Bibliothek des Kongresses. 2004 wurde sie zum „Poet Laureate“ des Commonwealth (Virginia) ernannt. Diese Position hatte sie bis 2006 inne. Seit 1989 unterrichtet Dove an der Universität von Virginia in Charlottesville, wo sie den Lehrstuhl des Commonwealth-Professors für Englisch hat.
4. Aug. 2023 · American Smooth by Rita Dove We were dancing—it must have been a foxtrot or a waltz, something romantic but requiring restraint, rise and fall, precise execution as we moved into the next song ...
26. Dez. 2006 · Rita Dove. When you appeared it was as if magnets cleared the air. I had never seen that smile before or your hair, flying silver. Someone waving goodbye, she was silver, too. Of course you didn’t see me. I called softly so you could choose not to answer – then called again. You turned in the light, your eyes seeking your name.
Rita Dove won the Pulitzer Prize when I was in elementary school, and she was the US poet laureate by the time I was in high school. From the first time a teacher told me Dove’s name, I have made it my duty to be a student of her work. I have learned that she uses the oddest pieces of the world and makes of them the stuff of lyric poetry. She ...
