Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Rita Dove'
Rita Dove | How Does a Shadow Shine?
As a Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove is among the most accomplished and recognizable poets of our time. Her collections of poetry include <em>Thomas and Beulah</em>, <em>American Smooth</em>, and, most recently, <em>Sonata Mulattica</em>, an ambitious and fascinating poetic recreation of the life of George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, a mixed-race violinist born in 1780 in Vienna. <br /> <br /> In this recording from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar, Dove delivers a reading and talk entitled "How Does a Shadow Shine?" In it, she reads excerpts from <em>Sonata Mulattica</em> and discusses her motivation in applying poetic language and intensity to the strange life and times of the violinist Bridgetower, whose prodigious talents and exotic ethnicity were exploited by his showman father to considerable commercial and creative success. We learn of Bridgetower's relationship with the great composer Ludwig von Beethoven, whose Violin Sonata No. 9 was originally written for Bridgetower, and we hear poems including "Prologue of the Rambling Sort," "Disappearance," "The Wardrobe Lesson," "Black Billy Waters at his Pitch," "Ludwig von Beethoven's Return to Vienna," "Cambridge, Great Saint Mary's Church," and "The End, with MapQuest"
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Rita Dove | How Does a Shadow Shine?
As a Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove is among the most accomplished and recognizable poets of our time. Her collections of poetry include <em>Thomas and Beulah</em>, <em>American Smooth</em>, and, most recently, <em>Sonata Mulattica</em>, an ambitious and fascinating poetic recreation of the life of George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, a mixed-race violinist born in 1780 in Vienna. <br /> <br /> In this recording from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar, Dove delivers a reading and talk entitled "How Does a Shadow Shine?" In it, she reads excerpts from <em>Sonata Mulattica</em> and discusses her motivation in applying poetic language and intensity to the strange life and times of the violinist Bridgetower, whose prodigious talents and exotic ethnicity were exploited by his showman father to considerable commercial and creative success. We learn of Bridgetower's relationship with the great composer Ludwig von Beethoven, whose Violin Sonata No. 9 was originally written for Bridgetower, and we hear poems including "Prologue of the Rambling Sort," "Disappearance," "The Wardrobe Lesson," "Black Billy Waters at his Pitch," "Ludwig von Beethoven's Return to Vienna," "Cambridge, Great Saint Mary's Church," and "The End, with MapQuest"
Entries from L I T T O R A L | the journal of the Key West Literary Seminar tagged with 'Rita Dove'
From the Archives
John Malcolm Brinnin helped establish New York City's 92nd St. Y as a national focal point for poetry in the 1950s and was a crucial influence on the Key West Literary Seminar in our early years. The author of <em>Grand Luxe: The Transatlantic Style</em>, he was also a great fan of travel aboard luxury ocean liners, the now-extinct class of which the QE2 was the highest iteration. Rita Dove, at the time, was the nation's poet laureate.
One more look @ the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar
Photo-caption highlights from "Clearing the Sill of the World," the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. An extraordinary literary event, which brought together seven U.S. Poets Laureate, as many winners of the Pulitzer Prize, up-and-coming poetic talents, and a truly remarkable audience of readers, writers, teachers, and poetry lovers of all stripe.
Rita Dove is 8th Laureate to Join KWLS 28
We are delighted to announced the addition of Rita Dove to our roster of speakers for the Key West Literary Seminar next January. Dove joins current United States Poet Laureate Kay Ryan, and past Laureates Billy Collins, Charles Simic, Robert Pinsky, Maxine Kumin, and Mark Strand for our 28th annual event, intended as a celebration of 60 years of American poetry and a tribute to Richard Wilbur, himself a former Laureate.
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