Rita Dove: Poems Rita Dove

Poetry

Collections

• The yellow house on the corner. Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. 1980.
• Museum (Carnegie Mellon, 1983)
• Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon Press, 1986), ISBN 978-0-88748-021-8
• Grace Notes (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), ISBN 978-0-393-02719-8
• Selected Poems (Pantheon/Vintage, 1993), ISBN 978-0-679-75080-2
• Mother Love (New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), ISBN 978-0-393-31444-1
• On the Bus with Rosa Parks (New York: Norton, 1999), ISBN 978-0-393-04722-6
• American Smooth (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), ISBN 978-0-393-05987-8
• Sonata Mulattica (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009), ISBN 978-0-393-07008-8
• Collected Poems 1974-2004 (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2016), ISBN 978-0-393-28594-9
• Playlist for the Apocalypse (New York: W. W. Norton, 2021), ISBN 978-0-393-86777-0

Anthologies (edited)

• The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), ISBN 978-0-14-310643-2
• The Best American Poetry 2000 (New York: Scribner, 2000), ISBN 978-0-7432-0033-2

Novels

• Through the Ivory Gate (Pantheon Books, 1992), ISBN 978-0-679-41604-3

Short fiction

• Fifth Sunday (University of Kentucky, Callaloo Fiction Series, 1985), ISBN 978-0-912759-06-7

Drama

• The Darker Face of the Earth: A Verse Play in Fourteen Scenes (Story Line Press, 1994; revised edition: 1996)

Essays

• The Poet's World (Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1995)

Scholarly books on Dove's work

• Steffen, Therese. Crossing Color: Transcultural Space and Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, and Drama. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Ingersoll, Earl G., ed. Conversations with Rita Dove. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003
• Pereira, Malin. Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
• Righelato, Pat. Understanding Rita Dove. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.
• Roy, Lekha. Towards Post-Blackness. A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry. New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2023.

Various other secondary literature (incomplete)

• Erickson, Peter. "Rita Dove's Shakespeares." In Marianne Novy (ed.), Transforming Shakespeare. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
• Harrington, Walt, "The Shape of Her Dreaming: Rita Dove Writes a Poem." In Intimate Journalism. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997
• Keller, Lynn. "Sequences Testifying for 'Nobodies': Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and Brenda Marie Osbey's Desperate Circumstance, Dangerous Woman." In Forms of Expansion: Recent Long Poems by Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
• McDowell, Robert. "The Assembling Vision of Rita Dove." In James McCorkle (ed.), Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1990.
• Meitner, Erika. "On Rita Dove." In Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker (eds), Women Poets on Mentorship. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008
• Shoptaw, John. "Segregated Lives: Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah." In Henry Louis Gates, Jr (ed.), Reading Black, Reading Feminist. London: Penguin, 1990
• Galgano, Andrea. "Rita Dove. La grazia esatta" in Frontiera di Pagine II, pp. 723–734. Roma: Aracne, 2017
• Apolloni, Ag. Poetry is a kind of dance (Interview with Rita Dove). Symbol, No 9/2017. Link: https://www.eurozine.com/poetry-is-a-kind-of-dance/
• Young, Kevin. "The Art of Poetry. No. 113." Interview with Rita Dove. In The Paris Review No 243 (Spring 2023). pp. 114-148.

Very incomplete list of individual poems