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Born in August 28, 1952 / United States / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Career | Bibliography

BOOKS

  • Contemporary Women Poets, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1998.
  • Keller, Lynn, Forms of Expansion, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1997.
  • Novy, Marianne, editor, Transforming Shakespeare, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Pereira, Malin, Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism, University of Illinois Press, 2003.
  • Steffen, Therese, Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, and Drama, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Vendler, Helen Hennessy, The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1995.

PERIODICALS

  • African American Review, spring, 2000, Theodora Carlisle, "Reading the Scars: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth," p. 135; summer, 2002, Malin Pereira, "'When the Pear Blossoms / Cast Their Pale Faces on / the Darker Face of the Earth': Miscegenation, the Primal Scene, and the Incest Motif in Rita Dove's Work," pp. 195-212.
  • American Book Review, July, 1985.
  • American Poetry Review, January, 1982, 36.
  • American Visions, April-May, 1994, p. 33; October, 1999, Denolyn Carroll, review of On the Bus with Rosa Parks, p. 34.
  • Belles Lettres, winter, 1993-94, pp. 38-41.
  • Black American Literature Forum, fall, 1986, pp. 227-240.
  • Booklist, February 1, 1981, p. 743; August, 1983; March 15, 1986, p. 1057; February 15, 1997.
  • Callaloo, winter, 1986; spring, 1991; winter, 1996.
  • Detroit Free Press, July 24, 1993, pp. 5A, 7A.
  • Georgia Review, summer, 1984; winter, 1986.
  • Kliatt, March, 1994, p. 25.
  • Library Journal, August, 1992; November 15, 1993, p. 81; March 1, 1994, p. 88; April 1, 1997; May 15, 1999, Ellen Kaufman, review of On the Bus with Rosa Parks, p. 99.
  • Michigan Quarterly Review, spring, 1987, pp. 428-438.
  • New Yorker, May 15, 1995.
  • New York Review of Books, October 23, 1986.
  • New York Times Book Review, October 11, 1992; April 11, 1999, Matthew Flamm, review of On the Bus with Rosa Parks, p. 24.
  • North American Review, March, 1986.
  • Parnassus, spring-summer-fall-winter, 1985; Volume 16, number 2, 1991.
  • Poetry, October, 1984; October, 1990, pp. 37-39; March, 1996, Ben Howard, review of Mother Love, p. 349.
  • Publishers Weekly, August 3, 1992; January 31, 1994, p. 83; April 12, 1999, Brenda Shaughnessy, "Rita Dove: Taking the Heat," p. 48; July 31, 2000, review of Best American Poetry 2000, p. 90.
  • Southern Humanities Review, winter, 1988, p. 87.
  • Times Literary Supplement, February 18, 1994; November 17, 1995, p. 29.
  • USA Weekend, March 25-27, 1994, p. 22.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, spring, 1988, pp. 262-276.
  • Washington Post, April 17, 1987; May 19, 1993; November 7, 1997.
  • Washington Post Book World, April 8, 1990, p. 4; July 30, 1995, p. 8.
  • Women in the Arts, spring, 1999, Renee H. Shea, "Irresistible Beauty: The Poetry and Person of Rita Dove," pp. 6-9.
  • Women's Review of Books, July, 1990, pp. 12-13; May, 1994, p. 6; May, 1996.

ONLINE

  • Rita Dove Home Page, http://www.people.virginia.edu/~rfd4b/ (June 28, 2003).