Rita Dove

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

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In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect history's grand exploits to the triumphs and tragedies of individual lives-the simmering resentment of an elevator operator, an octogenarian's exuberant mambo, the mordant humor of a philosophizing cricket.Audaciously playful yet grave, alternating poignant meditations on mortality and acerbic observations of injustice, Playlist for the Apocal… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-86777-0
EAN: 9780393867770
Produktnummer: 34784723
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Seitenangabe: 144 S.

Über den Autor

Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U S Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. A professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia, she lives in Charlottesville.