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Grace notes : poems, by Rita Dove

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With this her fourth book of poems - her first since winning the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry - Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary American letters. 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 added to the basic melody, the embellishments that - if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch - can break your heart. Isn't this what every lyric poem wishes to be, the poet asks as she explores autobiographical events, most from childhood and the cusp of adolescence, and then turns to the shadowy areas of regret and memory. The word as talisman is another of her concerns, and finally, in the section that most typifies the lilt of grace notes, Dove considers the embellishments below the melody of daily life. --from inside jacket cover
Language
eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 73 pages)
Contents
  • Summit Beach, 1921
  • Silos
  • Fifth grade autobiography
  • The buckeye
  • Quaker Oats
  • Flash cards
  • Crab-boil
  • Hully gully
  • Fantasy and science fiction
  • Sisters
  • Uncle Millet
  • Poem in which I refuse contemplation
  • Mississippi
  • After storm
  • Watching Last Year at Marienbad at Roger Haggerty's House in Auburn, Alabama
  • Dog days, Jerusalem
  • Ozone
  • Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home
  • Particulars
  • Your death
  • The wake
  • The other side of the house
  • Pastoral
  • Horse and tree
  • The breathing, the endless news
  • After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed
  • Genetic expedition
  • Backyard, 6 a.m.
  • Dedication
  • Ars Poetica
  • Arrow
  • Stitches
  • In the museum
  • And counting
  • Dialectical romance
  • Medusa
  • In a neutral city
  • Saints
  • Genie's prayer under the kitchen sink
  • The gorge
  • Canary
  • The island women of Paris
  • À l'Opéra
  • Obbligato
  • Lint
  • The royal workshops
  • On the road to Damascus
  • Old folk's home, Jerusalem
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Grace notes : poems
Title
Grace notes
Title remainder
poems
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by Rita Dove
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Language
eng
Summary
With this her fourth book of poems - her first since winning the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry - Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary American letters. 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 added to the basic melody, the embellishments that - if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch - can break your heart. Isn't this what every lyric poem wishes to be, the poet asks as she explores autobiographical events, most from childhood and the cusp of adolescence, and then turns to the shadowy areas of regret and memory. The word as talisman is another of her concerns, and finally, in the section that most typifies the lilt of grace notes, Dove considers the embellishments below the melody of daily life. --from inside jacket cover
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Dove, Rita
Dewey number
811/.54
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS3554.O884
LC item number
G7 1989
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Dove, Rita
  • Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)
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  • English poetry
  • English poetry
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Grace notes : poems, by Rita Dove
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
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rdacarrier
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Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Summit Beach, 1921 -- Silos -- Fifth grade autobiography -- The buckeye -- Quaker Oats -- Flash cards -- Crab-boil -- Hully gully -- Fantasy and science fiction -- Sisters -- Uncle Millet -- Poem in which I refuse contemplation -- Mississippi -- After storm -- Watching Last Year at Marienbad at Roger Haggerty's House in Auburn, Alabama -- Dog days, Jerusalem -- Ozone -- Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home -- Particulars -- Your death -- The wake -- The other side of the house -- Pastoral -- Horse and tree -- The breathing, the endless news -- After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed -- Genetic expedition -- Backyard, 6 a.m. -- Dedication -- Ars Poetica -- Arrow -- Stitches -- In the museum -- And counting -- Dialectical romance -- Medusa -- In a neutral city -- Saints -- Genie's prayer under the kitchen sink -- The gorge -- Canary -- The island women of Paris -- À l'Opéra -- Obbligato -- Lint -- The royal workshops -- On the road to Damascus -- Old folk's home, Jerusalem
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 73 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)268793565
Label
Grace notes : poems, by Rita Dove
Link
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Summit Beach, 1921 -- Silos -- Fifth grade autobiography -- The buckeye -- Quaker Oats -- Flash cards -- Crab-boil -- Hully gully -- Fantasy and science fiction -- Sisters -- Uncle Millet -- Poem in which I refuse contemplation -- Mississippi -- After storm -- Watching Last Year at Marienbad at Roger Haggerty's House in Auburn, Alabama -- Dog days, Jerusalem -- Ozone -- Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home -- Particulars -- Your death -- The wake -- The other side of the house -- Pastoral -- Horse and tree -- The breathing, the endless news -- After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed -- Genetic expedition -- Backyard, 6 a.m. -- Dedication -- Ars Poetica -- Arrow -- Stitches -- In the museum -- And counting -- Dialectical romance -- Medusa -- In a neutral city -- Saints -- Genie's prayer under the kitchen sink -- The gorge -- Canary -- The island women of Paris -- À l'Opéra -- Obbligato -- Lint -- The royal workshops -- On the road to Damascus -- Old folk's home, Jerusalem
Edition
First edition.
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 73 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)268793565

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