Rita Dove
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English
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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 of antebellum Southern plantation life unfolds a mysterious tale of interracial love and strife, guilt and suffering, as both slave and master struggle against a fate that threatens to eclipse them altogether.
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Español
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'Thomas y Beulah', de la laureada Rita Dove, es un libro de poesía que, a diferencia de la mayoría de los poemarios contemporáneos, exige una lectura «en secuencia», como una narración en verso. Los poemas relatan en sendas partes las vidas de una pareja afroestadounidense de 1900 a 1969 y constituyen una muestra del interés de Dove por «el individuo atrapado en la telaraña de la Historia», es decir, por las cuestiones de género, raza y...
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Physical Desc
114 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A piercing, unflinching new volume offers necessary music for our tumultuous present, from "perhaps the best public poet we have" (Boston Globe). In her first volume of new poems in twelve years, Rita Dove investigates the vacillating moral compass guiding America's, and the world's, experiments in democracy. Whether depicting the first Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Venice or Black Lives Matter, this extraordinary poet never fails to connect...