![]() Dove’s reading was part of the Annual Steiner Memorial Lecture Series. All College Seminar is a Santa Fe tradition in which classes are suspended for the day so that students, staff, and faculty can convene in small seminar groups for reading and discussion of one selected work. Hear Dove-former US Poet Laureate and the only poet to receive both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts-read from her poetry collection Museum, which was the seminar selection for Santa Fe’s recent All College Seminar. But I have a little list already, in my mind.“ ![]() And who knows what those books are gonna be. Rita Pavone è su Instagram dove il suo profilo ufficiale conta attualmente oltre 12mila follower. What makes a great book, I think, is the attention to the craft, so that you think it could not have been written any other way and also it opens you up to possibility. So the silences are really important, right? And he does that so well. It happens in August Wilson’s plays, because in plays, everybody talks all the time. That happens in Toni Morrison’s Sula, in Song of Solomon. To me, it’s just a matter of scale it’s a matter of length and time it’s the attention to the language it’s the way that language can intimate something that you cannot say. So many great books have been reviled in their time.Īnd I think that every great piece of literature contains something of poetry: be that a play, be that a novel, or a short story. Besides taking an external perspective on the daily life of a mother, it is as well closely associated with the history of Doves family. Dove was encouraged to read widely by her parents. And I think a lot of us get angry at things that have been omitted. 'Daystar' by Rita Dove is one of the most educative and lesson learning poems. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of one of the first Black chemists in the tire industry. But I do recognize that I am absolutely committed to writing about what I call the underside of history, of all the forgotten voices, of all the things that we don’t know. You know, because I think that-I try not to categorize myself, I try not to think about myself, I’ll let other people do that. ’ But my way, you know.Īnd then I write about it. And so my feeling is ‘Oh, I’m gonna do The Iliad. But my feeling is that, if you’re angry at something, you do not cut it off, and shutter yourself. And as I was growing up, I loved those great books, but I was also mad at them, angry at them. So it feels like a second home to be coming here. So I grew up with these books, and I argued with these books, and I moved beyond those books too, into the 20th and the 21st century. ![]() As I told some of you yesterday, my parents had invested in the great books of the Western world. ![]() “I have been looking forward to this for many reasons. What did Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove-the only author to speak at the College whose work was also selected for All College Seminar-have to say about the Great Books during her February lecture in Santa Fe? A lot actually-and here are a few selections from her recent reading at the college: Rita Dove, American poet, writer, former U.S.MaRita Dove with students, President Roosevelt, Dean Sterling, and Assistant Dean Maggie McGuinness before her Santa Fe lecture.This episode was originally produced 4-19-22. You can also chat about book club selections and other literary interests with Charity and hundreds of other readers in the Talk of Iowa Book Club Facebook Group. Interested in joining the next meeting of the Talk of Iowa Book Club? The 2023 Book Club reading list is now available. Marquart and Morris delve into Dove's collection to talk about form, structure and themes. Simula in anteprima limporto netto della RITA, la Rendita Integrativa Temporanea Anticipata, per i lavoratori che hanno aderito a forme di previdenza complementari. Her most recent book is Who Do with Words: A Blerd Love Tone Manifesto. She is a professor of poetry at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Morris is the writer and editor of several books, a poet and performer. Marquart's most recent book is The Night We Landed on the Moon: Essays Between Exile & Belonging. She is an author, poet, musician and a distinguished professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. Later in the podcast, expert readers Debra Marquart and Tracie Morris join the conversation. Dove joins host Charity Nebbe for this Talk of Iowa Book Club conversation to reflect on her work. Her most recent work is Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems, released in 2021. She has received the National Humanities Medal, the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Poet Laureate in 1993 and was the first Black American to fill that role. She has since become one of the most celebrated poets in American History. Dove grew up in Ohio but spent time in Iowa earning her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.
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