On the bus with Rosa Parks : poems /

In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history...

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Main Author: Dove, Rita
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton, 2000
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505 0 |a Cameos -- July, 1925 -- Night -- Birth -- Lake Erie skyline, 1930 -- Depression years -- Homework -- Graduation, Grammar school -- Painting the town -- Easter Sunday, 1940 -- Nightwatch: Son -- Freedom: Bird's-eye view -- Singsong -- I cut my finger once on purpose -- Parlor -- First Book -- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967 -- Freedom: Bird's-Eye View -- Testimonial -- Dawn revisited -- Black on a saturday night -- My mother enters the work force -- Black on a saturday night -- Musician talks about "process" -- Sunday -- Camel comes to us from the barbarians -- Venus of Willendorf -- Incarnation in Phoenix -- Revenant -- Best western motor lodge, AAA approved -- Revenant -- On Veronica -- Peach orchard -- Against repose -- Against self-pity -- Gotterdammerung -- Ghost walk -- Lady freedom among us -- For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000 -- On the bus with Rosa Parks -- Sit back, relax -- "The situation is intolerable" -- Freedom ride -- Climbing in -- Claudette Colvin goes to work -- Enactment -- Rosa -- Transatlantic crossing: Third day -- In the lobby of the Warner theatre, Washington, D.C. -- Pond, porch-view: Six P.M., Early spring -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. 
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