Rita Dove
American poet who was the youngest and first African American to serve as US Poet Laureate. Thomas and Beulah won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and reconstructs her grandparents' lives in verse.
Works
- The Yellow House on the CornerLyric poems rooted in domestic southern imagery and family memory
- MuseumPoetry collection drawing from history, art, and cultural references
- Thomas and BeulahNarrative poems about an African-American couple's life spanning decades
- Grace NotesPoems exploring music, memory, grief, and the resonance of individual lives
- Mother LoveLyric sequence retelling the Demeter-Persephone myth in contemporary voice