Rita Dove

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August 28, 1952 in Akron, Ohio, The United States

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http://people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/

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Poetry

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Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and musician, lives in Charlottesville, where she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

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Average rating: 3.95 · 2,529 ratings · 237 reviews · 32 distinct works

	Thomas and Beulah: Poems 3.77 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems 3.89 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mother Love 3.95 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	My rating:
	On the Bus With Rosa Parks 3.95 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	American Smooth 3.76 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sonata Mulattica 3.82 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Best American Poetry 2000 by Rita Dove (Editor), David Lehman (Series Editor) 3.75 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Grace Notes 3.72 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Darker Face of the Earth 3.51 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“If you can't be free, be a mystery.”
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“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.”
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“If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.”
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