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For the Love of Books by Rita Dove - Free download as Word Doc (.doc), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Rita Dove grew up with a deep passion for books that allowed her to travel anywhere through reading, and she spent many summer days browsing the bookshelves in her home.
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The document discusses the author's lifelong passion for...
- For The Love of Books Rita Dove W: Shakespeare - Scribd
Author of a novel, a book of short stories, essays, and numerous volumes of poetry, among them the National Book Award finalist and NAACP Image Award winner Collected Poems 1974–2004, she also edited The Best American Poetry 2000 and the Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry (2011).
For the Love of Books. Rita Dove. W hen I am asked: “What made you want to be a writer?” my answer has always been: “Books.” First and foremost, now, then, and always, I have been passionate about books.
The book was about Rita Dove and how she loves reading as a child. Rita was so passionate for reading books that she sometimes could gaze at a closed book and think about all the possibilities the book could hold. One day, her teacher took her to a book signing event which made her decided she was going to pursue her love of books.
Rita Dove received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Thomas and Beulah and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995. Spanning forty-plus years with translations on all continents, her oeuvre includes many genres; besides her numerous poetry collections – most recently Playlist for the Apocalypse – she has authored short stories ...
Courtesy of Rita Dove. I first encountered Rita Dove in Essence magazine, where I learned that she’d won the 1987 Pulitzer for her book Thomas and Beulah (1986)—the first Black poet to be so awarded since Gwendolyn Brooks nearly four decades before.
