Rita Dove To Receive Award
Rita Dove, a former U.S. and Virginia poet laureate and a professor of poetry at the University of Virginia, has been chosen to receive the Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The award will be presented Oct. 11 during the 11th annual Library of Virginia Awards celebration.
Born Aug. 28, 1952, in Akron, Ohio, Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book "Thomas and Beulah," based on her maternal grandparents. Her many other collections of poetry include "American Smooth," "Mother Love," "On the Bus with Rosa Parks," "Grace Notes" and "Selected Poems."
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The award will be presented Oct. 11 during the 11th annual Library of Virginia Awards celebration.
Born Aug. 28, 1952, in Akron, Ohio, Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book "Thomas and Beulah," based on her maternal grandparents. Her many other collections of poetry include "American Smooth," "Mother Love," "On the Bus with Rosa Parks," "Grace Notes" and "Selected Poems."
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Ah, I have a favorite Dove poem. May I share it with you?
By all means, please do. She's good.
"AFTER READING MICKEY IN THE NIGHT
KITCHEN FOR THE THIRD TIME BEFORE BED
I'M IN THE MILK AND THE MILK'S IN ME...I'M MICKEY!"
My daughter spreads her legs
to find her vagina:
hairless, this mistaken
bit of nomenclature
is what a stranger cannot touch
without her yelling. She demands
to see mine and momentarily
we're a lopsided star
among the spilled toys,
my prodigious scallops
exposed to her neat cameo.
And yet the same glazed
tunnel, layered sequences.
She is three; that makes this
innocent. We're pink!
she shrieks, and bounds off.
Every month she wants
to know where it hurts
and what the wrinkled string means
between my legs. This is good blood
I say, but that's wrong, too.
How to tell her that it's what makes us-
black mother, cream child.
That we're in the pink
and the pink's in us.
From Language of Life edited by Bill Moyers.
Bill Moyers, the TV guy?
This is an incredible poem in many ways, the images, of course, the story-telling tone, the sounds, "This is good blood, I say."
Thanks for sharing, Susan. Didn't get the prompt, BTW. I'm at retjoun thingy gmail thingy com
I forgot to say that my favourite Dove poem is Adolescence II.
They're all my favourites. Great news.
Oh, my. I just posted the meme to your most recent post. Feel free to delete and repost after you've written your responses.
Yes, the tv guy. :-) I've read this several times over the years and every time, I enjoy it. I love what she is saying to women, to mothers and daughters.
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