Research Catalog

Title

Grace notes : poems / by Rita Dove.

Author

Dove, Rita

Publication

• New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [1989]
• [Scranton, Pennsylvani] : Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., [1989]
• ©1989

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Details

Additional Authors

• Krass, Antonina
• Kosarin, Linda
• Viebahn, Fred, 1947-
• Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., printer.
• W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Description

xiii, 73 pages; 22 cm

Summary

With this her fourth book of poems - her first since winning the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry - Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary American letters. The title of the collection serves as an umbrella for the intimate concerns expressed in the forty-eight poems ; in music, grace notes are those added to the basic melody, the embellishments that - if played or sung at the right moment with just the right touch - can break your heart. Isn't this what every lyric poem wishes to be, the poet asks as she explores autobiographical events, most from childhood and the cusp of adolescence, and then turns to the shadowy areas of regret and memory. The word as talisman is another of her concerns, and finally, in the section that most typifies the lilt of grace notes, Dove considers the embellishments below the melody of daily life. --from inside jacket cover.

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subjects

• Dove, Rita > Portraits
• Dust jackets (Binding)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Devinne
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Mannequin

Genre/Form

• Lyric poetry.
• Typefaces (Type evidence – Devinne.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Mannequin.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1989.

Note

• Book designed by Antonina Krass; jacket designed by Linda Kosarin.
• Set in Devinne, with Mannequin display type.
• Photograph of the poet on rear flap of jacket by Fred Viebahn.

Provenance (note)

• Copy in Rare Books 21-447 inscribed by the author: in ink, on title page.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Rare Books 21-447 is bound in publisher's blue cloth, author's initials stamped in blind on front cover; with original dust jacket.

Contents

Summit Beach, 1921 -- Silos -- Fifth grade autobiography -- The buckeye -- Quaker Oats -- Flash cards -- Crab-boil -- Hully gully -- Fantasy and science fiction -- Sisters -- Uncle Millet -- Poem in which I refuse contemplation -- Mississippi -- After storm -- Watching Last Year at Marienbad at Roger Haggerty's House in Auburn, Alabama -- Dog days, Jerusalem -- Ozone -- Turning thirty, I contemplate students bicycling home -- Particulars -- Your death -- The wake -- The other side of the house -- Pastoral -- Horse and tree -- The breathing, the endless news -- After reading Mickey in the Night Kitchen for the third time before bed -- Genetic expedition -- Backyard, 6 a.m. -- Dedication -- Ars Poetica -- Arrow -- Stitches -- In the museum -- And counting -- Dialectical romance -- Medusa -- In a neutral city -- Saints -- Genie's prayer under the kitchen sink -- The gorge -- Canary -- The island women of Paris -- À l'Opéra -- Obbligato -- Lint -- The royal workshops -- On the road to Damascus -- Old folk's home, Jerusalem.

Call Number

JFD 91-6285

ISBN

• 0393027198
• 9780393027198
• 0393306968
• 9780393306965

LCCN

89030762

OCLC

19325722

Author

Dove, Rita, author.

Title

Grace notes : poems / by Rita Dove.

Publisher

New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [1989]

Manufacturer

[Scranton, Pennsylvani] : Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., [1989]

Copyright Date

©1989

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Rare Books 21-447 inscribed by the author: in ink, on title page. NN

Binding

Copy in Rare Books 21-447 is bound in publisher's blue cloth, author's initials stamped in blind on front cover; with original dust jacket. NN

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Added Author

Krass, Antonina, book designer.

Kosarin, Linda, bookjacket designer.

Viebahn, Fred, 1947- photographer.

Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., printer.

W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 21-447

JFD 91-6285

Berg Coll Dove G73 1989