Rita Dove (1952- )

A selective list of online literary criticism for Rita Dove, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary criticism

Carlisle, Theodora. Reading the Scars: Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth. In African American Review, Spring, 2000.

Cavalieri, Grace Rita Dove: An interview. American Poetry Review, Mar 1995.

Dodson, Angela P. On the wings of a Dove: a collection of literary conversations with poet Rita Dove, from the University Press of Mississippi and other offbeat treasures covering the arts. In Black Issues Book Review, May-June, 2003.

Donohue, Cecilia. An introduction to Rita Dove from the Literary Encyclopedia, 12 January 2005. On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999); American Smooth (2004).

Lloyd, Emily. Navigating the personal: An interview with Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Off Our Backs, Apr 1994.

Pereira, Malin. "When the pear blossoms / cast their pale faces on / the darker face of the earth: miscegenation, the primal scene, and the incest motif in Rita Dove's work" African American Review, Summer, 2002.

Wallace, Patricia. Divided loyalties: literal and literary in the poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes, Cathy Song and Rita Dove - Poetry and Poetics MELUS, Fall, 1993 (removed from findarticles.com).

Introduction

An introduction to Rita Dove, plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois).

An extended, introductory article on Rita Dove's career, includes list of her works and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation.

The Books Interview: Rita Dove - Flashes of inspiration. The Independent (London), Aug 7, 1999 by Christina Patterson.

Rita Dove's faculty page at the Univ. of Virginia contains links to a comprehensive biography, a thorough list of her publications and projects, her CV, several poorly reproduced articles with limited access, and more.

A web page from Ploughshares lists the extensive contributions from Rita Dove published in this literary magazine.

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