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    The Darker Face of the Earth

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    Rita Dove served as poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995. She has been awarded many literary and academic honours, including the Pu...

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    The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human drama of classical proportions. Behind the facade o...

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    The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human drama of classical proportions. Behind the facade o...

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  • American Smooth: Poems - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    American Smooth: Poems

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    An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks. With the...

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  • Grace Notes, Poems - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Grace Notes, Poems

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    The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems; in music, grace notes are those add...

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  • Thomas and Beulah - Paperback(1st ed) | Diverse Reads

    Thomas and Beulah

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    A collection of poetry by Rita Dove. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780887480218 Media Type: Paperback(1st ed) Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Pr...

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    Collected Poems: 1974-2004

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    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 E...

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  • Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems - Paperback | Diverse Reads

    Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems

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    Notes From Black ReadsIn 2020, we were treated to new works by such tried and true poets as Margaret Atwood, Nikki Giovanni and Barbara Kingsolv...

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  • The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry - Paperback | Diverse Reads
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    The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

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    Penguin’s landmark poetry anthology, perfect for learning poems by heart in the age of ephemeral media Recipient of the Academy of American Poets...

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    Playlist for the Apocalypse

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    Notes From Black ReadsIn 2020, we were treated to new works by such tried and true poets as Margaret Atwood, Nikki Giovanni and Barbara Kingsolv...

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    Mother Love: Poems

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    In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico--and directly from the Greek...

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