![]() ![]() ![]() She brought such life to the office that her term was extended, and she has continued to raise the profile of poetry in myriad ways. When Rita Dove served as US Poet Laureate from 1993–1995, she revolutionized the office by literally bringing "poetry to the people," in schools, in musical events, and in unusual public spaces. She is the author of a novel Through the Ivory Gate (1992), a book of short stories Fifth Sunday (1985), many essays (some collected in The Poet's World, 1995), including a definitive essay on the work of Derek Walcott, and a play, The Darker Face of the Earth (1994), which has been produced to great acclaim in the United States and abroad. She has published eight books of poems, and her literary accomplishments extend beyond that form. The book was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. In Thomas and Beulah, her third books of poems, Dove reveals her power as a narrative poet in the imaginative retelling of the story of her grandparents' courtship and subsequent life together. ![]() Rita Dove's first collection of poems, The Yellow House on the Corner (1980), heralded the arrival of a new voice in American letters. ![]()
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