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Rita Dove — Eurydice, Turning
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15 minutes
Released:
Apr 11, 2022
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How do you speak with your mother when she’s forgotten who you are? By turning to myth, it seems, and by holding gentleness with bewilderment, love with patience. Rita Dove lets us overhear a phone call, and in this listening, we hear lifetimes unfold.Rita Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate from 1993–1995 and she served as the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004–2006. In 1987 she received the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her book Thomas and Beulah. She is currently Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We’re pleased to offer Rita Dove’s poem, and invite you to sign up here for the latest from Poetry Unbound.
Released:
Apr 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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