fashions imaginative constructs that strike the reader as much by their ‘rightness’ as their originality.

fashions imaginative constructs that strike the reader as much by their ‘rightness’ as their originality. An extraordinary debut. Joseph Parisi, The Booklist). When Carnegie Mellon University Press first published The Yellow House on the Corner in 1980, then twenty-seven year old RITA DOVE immediately attracted attention as a major new voice in American poetry.

Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove’s fresh reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum

Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove’s fresh reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum.

I picked this Rita Dove book by chance because she was listed as the person who organized the collection of poetry by Rosa Parks. I liked how Rita Dove created historical fiction poems. There were some love poems, travel poems, and adolescent poems.

Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the .

Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of . 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 The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum.

When Carnegie Mellon University Press first published The Yellow House on the Corner in 1980, then twenty-seven year old RITA DOVE immediately attracted attention as a major new voice in American poetry. Three years later she confirmed her extraordinary talent with her second collection, Museum, and in 1987 her third book, Thomas and Beulah, earned her the highest distinction in American letters, the Pulitzer Prize.

Dove has published poetry collections including The Yellow House on the Corner, Museum, and On the Bus with Rosa Parks; a book of. .Rita Dove Video is Courtesy of Katherine Neville (Smithsonian Libraries Board Member).

Dove has published poetry collections including The Yellow House on the Corner, Museum, and On the Bus with Rosa Parks; a book of short stories, Fifth Sunday; the novel Through the Ivory Gate; essays under the title The Poet's World; and the play The Darker Face of the Earth.

Rita Dove, Adolescence-II from Yellow House on the Corner (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989). Reprinted with the permission of the author. Source: Yellow House on the Corner (1989). Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of one of the first black chemists in the tire industry. Dove was encouraged to read widely by her parents, and excelled in school.

Rita Dove is an American poet and author. Dove also received an appointment as "special consultant in poetry" for the Library of Congress's bicentennial year from 1999 to 2000. The Yellow House on the Corner. The Other Side of the House. Dove is the second African American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1987, and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. On the Bus With Rosa Parks.

Rita Dove, The Secret Garden from Yellow House on the Corner (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989). Source: Yellow House on the Corner (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989).

Rita Dove was only the second African-American writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She published chapbooks early in her career and made her mark with collections like The Yellow House on the Corner (1980) and Museum (1983)

Rita Dove was only the second African-American writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Learn more at Biography. She published chapbooks early in her career and made her mark with collections like The Yellow House on the Corner (1980) and Museum (1983). In 1986 she published Thomas and Beulah, a l look at the lives of her grandparents that won the poetry Pulitzer Prize the following year.