On the bus with Rosa Parks : poems
Title:
On the bus with Rosa Parks : poems
Author:
Dove, Rita.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Norton, 2000.
©1999
Physical Description:
95 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos, " to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.
General Note:
"First published as a Norton paperback 2000"--T.p. verso.
Language:
English
Contents:
Cameos -- July, 1925 -- Night -- Birth -- Lake Erie skyline, 1930 -- Depression years -- Homework -- Graduation, Grammar school -- Painting the town -- Easter Sunday, 1940 -- Nightwatch: Son -- Freedom: Bird's-eye view -- Singsong -- I cut my finger once on purpose -- Parlor -- First Book -- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967 -- Freedom: Bird's-Eye View -- Testimonial -- Dawn revisited -- Black on a saturday night -- My mother enters the work force -- Black on a saturday night -- Musician talks about "process" -- Sunday -- Camel comes to us from the barbarians -- Venus of Willendorf -- Incarnation in Phoenix -- Revenant -- Best western motor lodge, AAA approved -- Revenant -- On Veronica -- Peach orchard -- Against repose -- Against self-pity -- Gotterdammerung -- Ghost walk -- Lady freedom among us -- For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000 -- On the bus with Rosa Parks -- Sit back, relax -- "The situation is intolerable" -- Freedom ride -- Climbing in -- Claudette Colvin goes to work -- Enactment -- Rosa -- Transatlantic crossing: Third day -- In the lobby of the Warner theatre, Washington, D.C. -- Pond, porch-view: Six P.M., Early spring -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Reading Level:
1030 Lexile.
ISBN:
9780393320268
9781435242302
Format :
Book
