Rita Dove

Grace Notes, Poems

Buch

The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that-if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch-can break your heart.Isn't this what every lyric poem wishes to be, the poet asks as she explored autobiographical events, most from childhood and the cusp of adolescence, and then turns to the shadowy areas of regret and memory. The word as talisman is another of her concerns, and finally, in the section that most typifies the lilt of grace notes, Dove considers the embellishments below… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-30696-5
EAN: 9780393306965
Produktnummer: 9213650
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
Seitenangabe: 90 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.1 cm x D0.7 cm 136 g
Gewicht: 136

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.