Collected Poems 1974-2004 by Rita Dove

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Collected Poems 1974-2004 by Rita Dove assembles a multi-part selection of verse spanning decades. The table of contents shows distinct thematic sequences, including reflections shaped by everyday life, historical and social memory, and encounters with art and music. Sections such as “In the Old Neighborhood,” “Museum,” “In the Bulrush,” “My Father’s Telescope,” and “Primer for the Nuclear Age” highlight recurring motifs—time, family, place, and moral inquiry—through narrative lyric forms and vivid imagery.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages435

Reading Time11 h 10 min

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Contents

In the Old Neighborhood

Museum (1983)

My Father’s Telescope

Primer for the Nuclear Age

Thomas and Beulah (1986)

Adjusting type size may change line breaks. Landscape mode may help to preserve line breaks. Fred, always CONTENTS Note:Adjusting type size may change line breaks. Landscape mode may help topreserve line breaks. In the Old Neighborhood THE YELLOW HOUSE ON THE CORNER (1980) I This Life The Bird Frau Robert Schumann, Or: Musical Genius Begins with Affliction Happenstance Small Town The Snow King Sightseeing Upon Meeting Don L. Lee, In a Dream“Teach Us to Number Our Days”Nigger Song: An Odyssey II Five Elephants Geometry Champagne Night Watch The Secret Garden A Suite for Augustus 1963 D.C. Planning the Perfect Evening Augustus Observes the Sunset Wake Back III Belinda’s Petition The House Slave David Walker (1785–1830) The Abduction The Transport of Slaves from Maryland to Mississippi Pamela Someone’s Blood Cholera The Slave’s Critique of Practical Reason Kentucky, 1833 IV Adolescence—I Adolescence—II Adolescence—III The Boast The Kadava Kumbis Devise a Way to Marry for Love Spy First Kiss Then Came Flowers Pearls Nexus V Notes from a Tunisian Journal The Sahara Bus Trip For Kazuko Beauty and the Beast His Shirt Great Uncle Beefheart The Son Corduroy Road Ö MUSEUM (1983) I. THE HILL HAS SOMETHING TO SAY The Fish in the Stone The Ants of Argos Pithos Nestor ’s Bathtub The Hill Has Something to Say The Copper Beech Tou Wan Speaks to Her Husband, Liu Sheng Catherine of Alexandria Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata Boccaccio: The Plague Years Fiammetta Breaks Her Peace II. IN THE BULRUSH November for Beginners Reading Hölderlin on the Patio with the Aid of a Dictionary Shakespeare Say Three Days of Forest, a River, Free Banneker In the Bulrush Delft Ike Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove At the German Writers Conference in Munich III. MY FATHER’S TELESCOPE Grape Sherbet Roses Sunday Night at Grandfather ’s Centipede My Father ’s Telescope Song. Summer Anti-Father To Bed A Father out Walking on the Lawn IV. PRIMER FOR THE NUCLEAR AGE The Sailor in Africa Early Morning on the Tel Aviv–Haifa Freeway Why I Turned Vegetarian Eastern European Eclogues Flirtation Exeunt the Viols The Left-Handed Cellist Lines Muttered in Sleep Primer for the Nuclear Age Parsley THOMAS AND BEULAH (1986) I. MANDOLIN The Event Variation on Pain Jiving Straw Hat Courtship Refrain Variation on Guilt Nothing Down The Zeppelin Factory Under the Viaduct, 1932 Lightnin’ Blues Compendium Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury Aircraft Aurora Borealis Variation on Gaining a Son One Volume Missing The Charm Gospel Roast Possum The Stroke

FAQs

What time span does this collected poetry cover?

It covers poems from 1974 to 2004, as indicated in the title.

What major sections are listed in the table of contents?

The contents include “In the Old Neighborhood,” “Museum (1983),” “My Father’s Telescope,” “Primer for the Nuclear Age,” and “Thomas and Beulah (1986),” among others.

How is “Museum (1983)” organized?

“Museum (1983)” is divided into multiple numbered subsections: I. “The Hill Has Something to Say,” II. “In the Bulrush,” and III. “My Father’s Telescope.”

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