{"product_id":"9780393354935","title":"Collected Poems: 1974-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRita Dove's \u003cem\u003eCollected Poems 1974-2004\u003c\/em\u003e 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 compiles Dove's fresh reflections on adolescence in \u003cem\u003eThe Yellow House on the Corner\u003c\/em\u003e and her irreverent musings in \u003cem\u003eMuseum\u003c\/em\u003e. She sets the moving love story of \u003cem\u003eThomas and Beulah\u003c\/em\u003e against the backdrop of war, industrialization, and the civil right struggles. The multifaceted gems of \u003cem\u003eGrace Notes\u003c\/em\u003e, the exquisite reinvention of Greek myth in the sonnets of \u003cem\u003eMother Love\u003c\/em\u003e, the troubling rapids of recent history in \u003cem\u003eOn the Bus with Rosa Parks\u003c\/em\u003e, and the homage to America's kaleidoscopic cultural heritage in \u003cem\u003eAmerican Smooth\u003c\/em\u003e all celebrate Dove's mastery of narrative context with lyrical finesse. With the \"precise, singing lines\" for which the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e praised her, Dove \"has created fresh configurations of the traditional and the experimental\" (\u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e magazine).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369532198973,"sku":"9780393354935","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780393354935_p0.jpg?v=1771590093","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780393354935","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}