12/16/2023 0 Comments Rita dove thomas and beulah pdf![]() ![]() Do you see this interaction as a kind of collaboration? PC: Engaging with other art forms and disciplines has long been essential to your work, whether music, dance, history, or otherwise. The work must reflect that original isolate impulse. On the one hand, that’s absolutely lovely on the other hand, it means taking care not to pander to that imaginary audience, and not to accept compromises. Now I feel that there are many people listening. I was trying to bring my story and viewpoint, to others and have them hear it. When I began writing seriously – and by that I mean writing and rewriting with the intent to communicate to strangers – I felt there was no one really listening. I approach all writing that way, whether poetry, drama, or prose. For me, writing is an intensely intimate activity that begins in absolute stillness, then progresses through a series of rewrites in which I try to make sure that what I’ve written is intelligible – that is, able to be felt by stranger –and hopefully ends up in a resurrection of that original intimate experience, so that the reader will be drawn into the space that the poem has shaped and will feel what I as the writer have tried to create. What has changed is the amount of time I have in which to write and the amount of public scrutiny I feel peering over my shoulder when I sit down to write. Rita Dove: I don’t know that the way I’ve thought about writing has actually changed. How has the way you’ve thought about writing changed over the course of your career? Poetry Center: Your Collected Poems: 1974-2004 was just named a National Book Award finalist, which is just one of many incredible achievements, including serving as the United States Poet Laureate. Note: some answers are edited or excerpted for length and/or clarity. Presented with special thanks to Chet'la Sebree. She was kind enough to answer a few questions for the Poetry Center in anticipation of her reading tomorrow. ![]() She is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Among Rita Dove's many honors are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama, the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and 25 honorary doctorates. In 1998 the Boston Symphony debuted her song cycle "Seven for Luck," with music by John Williams, under the composer's baton. Her drama The Darker Face of the Earth premiered in 1996 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was produced at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as the Royal National Theatre in London, among other venues. The author of numerous books, among them the 2009 tour de force Sonata Mulattica, a poetic treatise on the life of 19 th century violinist George Bridgetower, and, most recently, Collected Poems 1974-2004, she also edited The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. Rita Dove is one of our national treasures and an intensely important poet whose work has inspired and shaped the present and future. ![]()
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