Rita Dove
Bio
The Yellow House on the Corner
Champagne
The Secret Garden
Belinda’s Petition
Someone’s Blood
Cholera
The Boast
Pearls
Notes from a Tunisian Journal
The Sahara Bus Trip
Beauty and the Beast
Great Uncle Beefheart
Museum
The Hill has Something to Say
The Fish in the Stone
The Copper Beech
Fiammetta Breaks Her Peace
In the Bulrush
Shakespeare Say
Three Days of Forest, a River, Free
Banneker
In the Bulrush
Agosta the Winged Man and Rasha the Black Dove
My Fathers Telescope
Grape Sherbet
Roses
A Father out Walking on the Lawn
Primer in the Nuclear Age
The Sailor in Africa
Early Morning on the Tel Aviv-Haifa Freeway
Thomas and Beulah
Title Page
Mandolin
Mandolin Title Page
The Event
Variation on Pain
Jiving
Straw Hat
Courtship
Refrain
Variation on Guilt
Nothing Down
The Zeppelin Factory
Under the Viaduct, 1932
Lightnin’ Blues
Compendium
Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury
Aircraft
Aurora Borealis
Variation on Gaining a Son
One Volume Missing
The Charm
Gospel
Roast Possum
The Stroke
The Satisfaction Coal Company
Thomas at the Wheel
Canary in Bloom
Canary in Bloom Title Page
Taking in Wash
Magic
Courtship, Diligence
Promises
Dusting
A Hill of Beans
Weathering Out
Motherhood
Anniversary
The House on Bishop Street
Daystar
Obedience
The Great Palace of Versailles
Pomade
Headdress
Sunday Greens
Recovery
Wingfoot Lake
Company
The Oriental Ballerina
American Smooth
American Smooth
Vocalist - Joan Grant
Poem Source: Selected Poems - Vintage Books - 1993
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