![]() “Poetry unfolds at the heart of language,” she said. ![]() Dove said she was painfully shy which helped her become a diligent observer which has served her well, “I watched, listened, and learned.” A voracious reader, she fell in love with words at an early age. ![]() It tells the story of a mixed-race musician named George Bridgetown who was a colleague of Ludwig von Beethoven.ĭove also reflected on her life growing up in Ohio. Students, faculty, staff, and community residents got to mingle with one of the most important literary voices of our time as she took time to meet people, answer questions, and discuss her life’s work.ĭove was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her poem “Thomas and Beulah” in 1987 and in 1993 she became the first African American woman to hold the title of United States Poet Laureate.ĭove started her lecture by saying “Our vocation as poets is to bathe ourselves in the world.” She read and discussed her latest original work Sonata Mulattica which consists of 84 poems. Addicott and Yatish J.Joshi Performance Hall. Dove spent two days at IU South Bend with public appearances at the Civil Rights Heritage Center and the Louise E. The transitory nature of existence is examined in such a way that the reader feels both the angst and wanting in existence - highest recommendation. Like a parrot imitating spring, we lie down screaming as rain punches through and we come up green. Poems that resonate the singularity of shared experiences Rita Dove is a linguistic surgeon who is able to skillfully dissect the individual need to belong from the body of collective existence. El General searches for a word he is all the world there is. Out of the swamp the cane appears to haunt us, and we cut it down. The campus and community got the opportunity to hear Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove during her visit as the 2018 Bender Scholar-in-Residence. The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating spring in the palace, its feathers parsley green.
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