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Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
by Malin Pereira, Cornelius Eady, Cyrus Cassells, Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa
Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3107-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3107-4

"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation.This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells pr ..."






Black Nature
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Joanne Gabbin, Nikki Giovanni, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Douglas Kearney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Clarence Major, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Patricia Smith, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Sterling A. Brown, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Arna Bontemps, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, June Jordan, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Audre Lorde, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Toni Wynn, Frank X. Walker
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3431-8, ISBN: 0-8203-3431-6

"Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated.Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry―anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition o ..."






The Civil Rights Reader
American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Amy Schmidt, Charles W. Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude Mckay, Lillian Smith, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Flannery O'connor, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Michael S. Harper, Haki Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, Constance Curry, Toi Derricotte, Wanda Coleman, Marilyn Nelson, Rita Dove, Anthony Grooms, Cyrus Cassells, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Mary Burrill, Angelina Weld Grimké, Dudley Randall, Howard Sackler, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hernandez, Bebe Moore Campbell, Patricia J. Williams, Walter Mosley, Amiri Baraka, Martin Luther King
Hardcover, 392 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3181-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3181-3

"This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a complex, ongoing process of defining national values such as freedom, justice, a ..."






The Civil Rights Reader
American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation
by Julie Buckner Armstrong, Amy Schmidt, Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude Mckay, Lillian Smith, Langston Hughes, Erskine Caldwell, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Flannery O'connor, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, June Jordan, Michael S. Harper, Haki Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, Constance Curry, Toi Derricotte, Wanda Coleman, Marilyn Nelson, Rita Dove, Anthony Grooms, Cyrus Cassells, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Mary Burrill, Angelina Weld Grimké, Dudley Randall, Howard Sackler, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hernandez, Bebe Moore Campbell, Patricia J. Williams, Walter Mosley, Amiri Baraka, Charles W. Chesnutt, Martin Luther King
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3225-3, ISBN: 0-8203-3225-9

"This title offers perspectives on civil rights not found in history books. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about the long civil rights movement. Unique in its focus on creative writing, the volume also ranges beyond a familiar 1954-1968 chronology to include works from the 1890s to the present. The civil rights movement was a compl ..."






Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen
Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets (Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication)
by Malin Pereira, Cyrus Cassells, Elizabeth Alexander, Harryette Mullen, Rita Dove, Thylias Moss, Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Cornelius Eady
Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3713-5, ISBN: 0-8203-3713-7

"Malin Pereira’s collection of eight interviews with leading contemporary African American poets offers an in-depth look at the cultural and aesthetic perspectives of the post–Black Arts Movement generation. This volume includes unpublished interviews Pereira conducted with Wanda Coleman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Cornelius Eady, and Elizabeth Alexander, as well as conversations with Rita Dove and Cyrus Cassells p ..."






Black Nature(Updated)
Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
by Camille T. Dungy, Toni Wynn, Alvin Aubert, Gerald Barrax, Remica Bingham, Cyrus Cassells, Lucille Clifton, Wanda Coleman, Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Kendra Hamilton, Terrance Hayes, Sean Hill, Langston Hughes, Major Jackson, Douglas Kearney, Clarence, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Mark Mcmorris, E. Miller, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Indigo Moor, Lenard Moore, Thylias Moss, Harryette Mullen, Gregory Pardlo, Cynthia Parker-Ohene, Carl Phillips, Stephanie Pruitt, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, Evie Shockley, Jean Toomer, Natasha Trethewey, Alice Walker, Frank X. Walker, Margaret Walker, Afaa Weaver, Al Young, Kwame Alexander, Tara Betts, Shane Book, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Melvin Dixon, James A. Emanuel, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Ross Gay, C. S. Giscombe, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Myronn Hardy, Michael S. Harper, Janice N. Harrington, Robert Hayden, George Moses Horton, Ravi Howard, Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Patricia Spears Jones, Professor Audre Lorde, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Devorah Major, Shara Mccallum, George Marion Mcclellan, Claude Mckay, Marilyn Nelson, G. E. Patterson, Ishmael Reed, Ed Roberson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Reginald Shepherd, Anne Spencer, Amber Flora Thomas, Wendy S. Walters, Anthony Walton, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Whitman, Sherley Anne Williams, Richard Wright, Professor Joanne Gabbin, Professor June Jordan, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Patricia Smith, Arna Bontemps, Melvin B. Tolson, Askia M. Touré, Joanne Gabbin
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3277-2, ISBN: 0-8203-3277-1

"This book presents the natural world seen through the eyes of black poets. ""Black Nature"" is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest po ..."






Playlist for the Apocalypse
Poems
by Rita Dove
128 Pages, Published 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-86778-7, ISBN: 0-393-86778-1

"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."






Tales of Dunes and Dragons
(Paperback)
by Juliet Vane, Rita Dove
Paperback, Published 2020 by Juliet Vane, United States
ISBN-13: 978-1-393-02719-5, ISBN: 1-393-02719-9






Jacob Lawrence(Reprint)
The Migration Series
by Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Kevin Young, Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-040-0, ISBN: 1-63345-040-6

"Lawrence's landmark series on African American migration in contextIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, made a series of 60 small tempera paintings on the Great Migration, the decades-long mass movement of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North that began in 1915–16. The child of migrant parents, Lawrence worked partly from his own experience and partly from long research in his neighborhood library. The res ..."






The Darker Face of the Earth
by Rita Dove
104 Pages, Published 2017 by Oberon Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-78682-326-7, ISBN: 1-78682-326-8

"... USA on 27 July 1996, with the following cast: PHEBE, B.W. Gonzalez PSYCHE , Gina Daniels SCYLLA, Tamu Gray TICEY, Michelle Blackmon DIANA, Nadine Griffith SLAVE WOMAN/NARRATOR, Johanna Jackson HECTOR, Thomas Byrd  ..."






Truth To Power
Writers Respond To The Rhetoric Of Hate And Fear
by Rita Dove, Joy Harjo, Pam Uschuk
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2017 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts
ISBN-13: 978-0-9986220-0-2, ISBN: 0-9986220-0-1

"Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts announces publication of a special collection of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, meant to address the rise in the public rhetoric of hatred and fear, prompted by the 2016 presidential campaign and election.  Writers from diverse cultures, genders, ethnic backgrounds and races from all over the U.S. respond in poetry, fiction and nonfiction to social issues ranging from immigration, LGBT rights, women's ..."






Collected Poems
1974-2004
by Rita Dove
400 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28595-6, ISBN: 0-393-28595-2

"... Age 10, Harlem,” “Evening Primrose,” and “Soprano” appeared in the chapbook Evening Primrose: Selected Poems, ... a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, lyrics by Rita Dove, music by John Williams, and first appeared in the program of ..."






The Best of Cutthroat(20th Edition)
(Paperback)
by Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2016 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts
Formato Grande
ISBN-13: 978-0-9795634-9-2, ISBN: 0-9795634-9-6

"Collected here in THE BEST OF CUTTHROAT are works by some of the finest poets, short story writers and nonfiction writers in our country, including Joy Harjo, Rita Dove, Wendell Berry, Carolyn Forche, Martin Espada, Sandra Cisneros, Alison Hawthorne-Deming, Rebecca Seiferle, Richard Jackson, Michael Martone, Patricia Smith, Pam Houston, Linda Hogan and others. This anthology is a distillation of all the fine work that Cutthroat, A Journ ..."






Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky(1st Edition)
by Tony Medina, Rita Dove, Afaa Michael Weaver, Patricia Spears Jones, Sonia Sanchez, Martin Espada, Ishmael Reed, Thylias Moss
Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2016 by Jacar Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-936481-09-8, ISBN: 0-936481-09-9

"An anthology of poetry addressing violence against African-Americans featuring work by Jericho Brown, Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Cornelius Eady, Martin Espada, Ross Gay, Jaki Shelton Green, Joy Harjo, Patricia Spears Jones, Allison Joseph, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jamaal May, Thylias Moss, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Quincy Troupe, Frank X Walker, Afaa MIchael Weaver, Mark Doty and more. Edited by Tony Medina. Proceeds from the s ..."






Collected Poems(1st Edition)
1974-2004
by Rita Dove
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-28594-9, ISBN: 0-393-28594-4

"Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award Finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.Rita Dove’s Collected Poems 1974–2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume ..."






Cutthroat 10th Anniversary A Tribute to Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan(Updated)
by Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Rita Dove
Paperback, 198 Pages, Published 2015 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts
ISBN-13: 978-0-9795634-8-5, ISBN: 0-9795634-8-8

"This literary journal features poetry, short stories and essays by Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, Rita Dove, Carolyn Forche, Martin Espada, Sherwin Bitsui, Clarence Major, Marilyn Nelson, Patricia Spears Jones, Quincy Troupe, Linda Weasel Head, William Pitt Root, Mark Childress, Jodi Angel, Louis Alberto Urrea, Sandra Cisneros and many others. This tribute to Native American writers, Joy Harjo and Linda Hogan, is Cutthroat's Tenth Anniversary ..."






Jacob Lawrence(Reprint)
The Migration Series
by Leah Dickerman, Elsa Smithgall, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jodi Roberts, Patricia Jones, Natasha Trethewey, Crystal Williams, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Young
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
ISBN-13: 978-0-87070-964-7, ISBN: 0-87070-964-X

"In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just twenty-three years old, completed a series of sixty small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration. Within months of its making, Lawrences Migration series was divided between The Museum of Modern Art (even numbered panels) and the Phillips Memorial Gallery (odd numbered panels). The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collect ..."






Four Virginia Poets Laureate
(2004-2012): An Anthology & Reader's Guide
by Rita Dove, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Claudia Emerson, Kelly Cherry Emerson, Sofia M. Starnes, Charles W. Steger, Charrles W. Steger
Paperback, 121 Pages, Published 2013 by Cedar Creek Pub
ISBN-13: 978-0-9839192-6-1, ISBN: 0-9839192-6-7

"The power of the written word can transform the human experience... One of the special roles of poetry is to concentrate observations and their attendant emotions in ways that can be a powerful stimulus to our imagination and helps us to transcend the particular moment of occurrence... The Poets Laureate of Virginia featured in this anthology possess this special gift. Our lives are richer for their dedication to their crafts as well as ..."






Shakespeare's Sisters, Women Writers Bridge Five Centuries
by Eavan Boland, Rita Dove, Linda Gregerson, Maxine Kumin, Linda Pastan, Rosanna Warren, Heather Mchugh, Gigi Bradford, Louisa Newlin
Paperback, 51 Pages, Published 2012 by Folger Shakespeare Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-9629254-4-3, ISBN: 0-9629254-4-6

"Book to complement The Folgers Winter 2012 exhibition.Shakespeare's Sisters : Voices of English And European Women Writers,1500-1700,February 2 through May 19 2012."






A Widow's Story(1st Edition)
A Memoir
by Joyce Carol Oates, A. R. Ammons, Rita Dove, Reynolds Price, Hilda Raz
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2011 by Ecco
Deckle Edge
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-201553-2, ISBN: 0-06-201553-2

" In a work unlike anything she's written before, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates unveils a poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of her husband of forty-six years and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. "My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnos ..."



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