Thomas and Beulah : poems / by Rita Dove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dove, Rita.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

American poetry--Women authors.

American poetry--African American authors--20th century.

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry--Women authors--20th century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Dove, Rita (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

79 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed by Harper and Row.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1986.

Summary:

A collection of poetry by Rita Dove.

Contents:

I. Mandolin. The Event; Variation on Pain; living; Straw Hat; Courtship; Refrain; Variation on Guilt; Nothing Down; The Zeppelin Factory; Under the Viaduct; Lightin' Blues; Compendium; Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury; Aircraft; Aurora Borealis; Variation on Gaining a Son; One Volume Missing; The Charm; Gospel; Roast Possum; The Stroke; The Satisfaction Coal Company; Thomas at the Wheel

II. Canary in Bloom. Taking in Wash; Magic; Courtship, Diligence; Promises; Dusting; A Hill of Beans; Weathering Out; Motherhood; Anniversary' The House on Bishop Street; Daystar; Obedience; The Great Palaces of Versailles; Pomade; Headdress; Sunday Greens; Recovery; Nightmare; Wingfoot Lake; Company; The Oriental Ballerina.

Notes:

"These poems tell two sides of a story and are meant to be read in sequence."

Chronology: pages 78-79.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0887480209

0887480217

OCLC:

24955131