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- Author : Rita Dove
- Binding : Paperback
- EAN : 9780887480218
- ISBN : 0887480217
- Label : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
- Manufacturer : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- Number Of Pages : 79
- Package Dimensions : 0.24 inches (Height) x 8.64 inches (Length) x 0.28 pounds (Weight) x 5.44 inches (Width)
- Product Group : Book
- Publication Date : 1987-09
- Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- SKU : 7880840
- Studio : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
The poems in this unusual book tell a story, forming a narrative almost like a realistic novel. Read in sequence as intended, they tell of the lives of a married black couple (not unlike Dove's own grandparents) from the early part of the century until their deaths in the 1960s, a period that spans the great migration of blacks from rural south to urban north. But this is merely the social backdrop to the story of a marriage. Two separate sequences offer two views of the couple's lives: the first, "Mandolin," consists of 23 poems giving Thomas's side, and "Canary in Bloom" gives Beulah's in 21 poems. Together they paint a detailed, poetically dense portrait of two lives in all their frailty, dignity and complexity. The collection was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1987.
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