{"product_id":"9780393285956","title":"Collected Poems: 1974-2004","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2016 National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2017 NAACP Image Award\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.\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","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47077728977136,"sku":"9780393285956","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393285956_p0.jpg?v=1763697241","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393285956","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}