Rita Dove, Dancing (2005)
Rita Dove, Dancing (2005)
This chapter looks at American poet Rita Dove's new volume of dance poems American Smooth. It explains that it was a specific hardship that led Dove to her current dancing obsession and to the subsequent use of dance in her writing. It examines how a poet replicates the distinctive measure of a specific dance and describes how Dove's poems mimic various dance steps.
Keywords: Rita Dove, American Smooth, American poet, dance poems, dance steps, poetry criticism
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