The Yellow House on the Corner

by Rita Dove

Overview

A reissuing of The Yellow House on the Corner, the debut collection of poetry by Rita Dove.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887480928
Publisher:	Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Series:	Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	72
Sales rank:	991,992
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

When Carnegie Mellon University Press first published The Yellow House on the Corner in 1980, then twenty-seven year old RITA DOVE immediately attracted attention as a major new voice in American poetry. Three years later she confirmed her extraordinary talent with her second collection, Museum, and in 1987 her third book, Thomas and Beulah, earned her the highest distinction in American letters, the Pulitzer Prize. Among other honors, she was also Robert Penn Warren’s choice for a Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 1986, received a 1987 General Electric Foundation Award and spent 1988/89 as a Senior Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.

Table of Contents

This Life • The Bird Frau • Robert Schumann, Or: Musical Genius Begins with Affliction • Happenstance • Small Town • The Snow King • Sightseeing • Upon Meeting Don L. Lee, In a Dream • “Teach Us to Number Our Days” • Nigger Song: An Odyssey Five Elephants • Geometry • Champagne • Night Watch • The Secret Garden • A Suite for Augustus • 1963 • D.C. • Planning the Perfect Evening • Augustus Observes the Sunset • Wake • Back Belinda’s Petition • The House Slave • David Walker (1785-1830) • The Abduction • The Transport of Slaves From Maryland to Mississippi • Pamela • Someone’s Blood • Cholera • The Slave’s Critique of Practical Reason • Kentucky, 1833 Adolescence—I • Adolescence—II • Adolescence—III • The Boast • The Kadava Kumbis Devise a Way to Marry for Love • Spy • First Kiss • Then Came Flowers • Pearls • Nexus Notes from a Tunisian Journals • The Sahara Bus Trip • For Kazuko • Beauty and the Beast • His Shirt • Great Uncle Beefheart • The Son • Corduroy Road • O

What People are Saying About This

Joseph Parisi

“Collected into this first book, Rita Dove’s poems announce a young poet of wide interests, deep sensibility, and justifiable confidence in her considerable powers. Coupling close attention to significant detail with a broad sense of history, the poet is able to give both concrete immediacy and philosophical resonance to her lines. Whether recounting poignant stages of adolescence or re-creating painful episodes of slave history, she speaks with a directness and a dramatic intensity that command attention. . . . [Rita Dove] fashions imaginative constructs that strike the reader as much by their ‘rightness’ as their originality. An extraordinary debut.”