The Yellow House on the Corner

Name: The Yellow House on the Corner
Author: Rita Dove

by Rita Dove

Lyric poems rooted in domestic southern imagery and family memory

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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.

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