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Sonata mulattica : a life in five movements and a short play : poems / by Rita Dove.
Van Pelt Library PS3554.O884 S66 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dove, Rita, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bridgetower, George Augustus Polgreen--Poetry.
- Bridgetower, George Augustus Polgreen.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827--Poetry.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827.
- Multiracial people--Poetry.
- Multiracial people.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2009]
- Contents:
- Prologues: Bridgetower
- Prologue of the rambling sort. Prodigy: (Re)naissance
- Capriccio
- Friedrich Augustus Bridgetower discovers the purposes of fatherhood
- Lines whispered to a pillow
- Recollection, preempted
- Paris, panting
- What doesn't happen
- Windsor
- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (1)
- Marine Pavilion, Brighthelmston
- Wardrobe lesson
- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (2)
- Seaside concerts
- Disappearance. Bread & butter, turbans & chinoiserie: Hear ye!
- Lesson: adagio
- Black pearl
- Ode to the moon
- Janissary rap
- Concert at Hanover Square
- Pulling the organ stops
- Black Billy Waters, at his pitch
- Haydn, overheard
- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (3)
- Dressing
- African prince sings songs of love
- Abandoned, again
- Mrs. Papendiek's diary (4)
- Transaction
- Undressing
- Ode on a Negress head clock, with eight tunes
- Intermezzo
- Tafelmusik (1)
- Brothers in spring
- Salomon concerts
- Haydn leaves London
- Seduction against exterior pilaster, waning gibbous
- Pretty boy
- New century aubade. Sturm und drang: Petition
- To the continent
- Old world lullaby
- Floating requiem
- Ach, wien
- Ludwig van Beethoven's return to Vienna
- First contact
- Vienna spring
- Polgreen, sight-reading
- Beethoven summons his copyist
- Augarten, 7 AM
- Performer. Volkstheater: a short play for the common man: Georgie Porgie, or A Moor in Vienna. "All is ashes:" Tail tucked
- Rain
- Esterhaza, prodigal
- Home again
- Eroica
- Tafelmusik (2)
- Countess shares confidences over Karneval chocolate
- Andante con Variazioni
- Haydn serenades the Napoleonic Honor Guard
- Regency fete
- Cambridge, Great St. Mary's Church
- Panopticon
- Last Frost Fair. Nomadia: Half-life
- Life in London, now playing at the Adelphi
- Moor with emeralds
- Vanities
- Haydn's head
- Birthday stroll on the Pall Mall
- Staffordshire figurine, 1825
- Nomadia
- Self-eulogy
- #8 Victory Cottages, Peckham, 1860
- Witness. Epilogues: Queen's wardrobe keeper
- All that jazz
- Composer's coda
- Haydn's skull
- Name game
- Instrumental
- End, with MapQuest.
- Notes:
- Hurston/Wright Legacy Award - Poetry, Winner, 2010
- Other Format:
- Online version: Dove, Rita. Sonata mulattica.
- ISBN:
- 9780393070088
- 0393070085
- 9780393338935
- 0393338932
- OCLC:
- 286488980
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