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Grace Notes : Poems by Rita Dove is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Grace Notes : Poems about?
<p>With this her fourth book of poems, Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary American letters.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In her fourth collection of poems, Dove harvests ripe fruits of the self. Her best lyrics are spare, intense and deeply personal, such as ``Pastoral,'' about breastfeeding her baby, or ``The Wake,'' which begins: ``Your absence distributed itself / like an invitation. / Friends and relatives / keep coming, trying / to fill up the house.'' There are family snapshots etched in memory, sketches of a Midwestern girlhood, of evenings in Jerusalem, of her small daughter struggling to comprehend as her mother details the facts of life. Dove, a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner and associate editor of Callaloo , a journal of Afro-American arts, offers an appreciation of Billie Holiday's voice that is also a meditation on the mythification of women. Her poems blend chiseled imagery, everyday observation, private dramas, political comment. (Oct.)</p>
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Rita Dove
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393306965
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (106 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14