Poet Brenda Shaughnessy noted that “Dove is a master at transforming a public or historic element-re-envisioning a spectacle and unearthing the heartfelt, wildly original private thoughts such historic moments always contain. Gary Hanna offers a bit of sweet seduction, Ed Zahniser rhapsodizes about his intense love for chocolate, while Rita Dove speaks the plain truth: when it comes to chocolate, it’s hopeless to resist. In works like the verse-novel Thomas and Beulah (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Sonata Mulattica (2009), Dove treats historical events with a personal touch, addressing her grandparents’ life and marriage in early 20th-century Ohio, the battles and triumphs of the Civil Rights era, and the forgotten career of black violinist and friend to Beethoven, George Polgreen Bridgetower. The book heralded the start of long and productive career, and it also announced the distinctive style that Dove continues to develop. Dove made her formal literary debut in 1980 with the poetry collection The Yellow House on the Corner, which received praise for its sense of history combined with individual detail. An underground band of HIV-positive, queer, urban, genderqueer, activists of color is making headlines in New York. After graduating, Dove received a Fulbright to study at the University of Tübingen in West Germany, and later earned an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop where she met her husband, the German writer Fred Viebahn. She was named a Presidential Scholar, one of the top one hundred high-school graduates in the country and attended Miami University in Ohio as a National Merit Scholar. It reminded me of the salsicche at Bocca Di Lupo, which was a chocolate mousse. Knotted smoke, dark punch of earth and night and leaf, for a taste of you. I also got some of Ritas homemade cherry baklava, which was spectacular. Pleasure seeker, if i let you you’d liquefy everywhere. Dove was encouraged to read widely by her parents, and excelled in school. Velvet fruit, exquisite square I hold up to sniff between finger and thumb how you numb me with your rich attentions If I don’t eat you quickly, you’ll melt in my palm. Happy Valentines Day, Fulbrighters In celebration of all things love and chocolate, we are excited to share this poem by Rita Dove - Pulitzer Prize. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of one of the first black chemists in the tire industry.
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