Word: doves
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...Rita Dove...
...Rita Dove, who after Gwendolyn Brooks was only the second African-American to win the Pulitzer prize in poetry, has attracted considerable attention with the publication of her first novel Through the Ivory Gate...
...book tells the story of Virginia King, a black woman in her twenties from a middle-class family in Akron, Ohio--Dove's hometown. Virginia returns to Akron as a visiting artist at an elementary school for a few weeks, during which she visits her grandmother and an estranged aunt...
Despite the accomplishment of Through the Ivory Gate, Dove has no intention of giving up poetry. She is currently a professor of creative writing at University of Virginia, and recently completed a historical drama in verse called The Darker Face of the Earth, due out in the fall of 1993. Dove is also halfway through a manuscript of poems...
Though Allen's health deteriorated dramatically in the summer of 1991, he continued to work on his dissertation on lyric poetry and author Rita Dove until his death...