8/6/2023 0 Comments Fun facts about rita dove![]() ![]() Dove’s reading was part of the Annual Steiner Memorial Lecture Series. All College Seminar is a Santa Fe tradition in which classes are suspended for the day so that students, staff, and faculty can convene in small seminar groups for reading and discussion of one selected work. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. Hear Dove-former US Poet Laureate and the only poet to receive both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts-read from her poetry collection Museum, which was the seminar selection for Santa Fe’s recent All College Seminar. If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. But I have a little list already, in my mind.“ And who knows what those books are gonna be. What makes a great book, I think, is the attention to the craft, so that you think it could not have been written any other way and also it opens you up to possibility. So the silences are really important, right? And he does that so well. It happens in August Wilson’s plays, because in plays, everybody talks all the time. She spent her youth on her familys South African farm, and she scandalized her Afrikaans community by writing a 1970 anti-Apartheid poem for her schools. That happens in Toni Morrison’s Sula, in Song of Solomon. To me, it’s just a matter of scale it’s a matter of length and time it’s the attention to the language it’s the way that language can intimate something that you cannot say. So many great books have been reviled in their time.Īnd I think that every great piece of literature contains something of poetry: be that a play, be that a novel, or a short story. And I think a lot of us get angry at things that have been omitted. ![]() But I do recognize that I am absolutely committed to writing about what I call the underside of history, of all the forgotten voices, of all the things that we don’t know. You know, because I think that-I try not to categorize myself, I try not to think about myself, I’ll let other people do that. ’ But my way, you know.Īnd then I write about it. Dove intended to make the most of her talents. She discovered her gift for word manipulation in early childhood. And so my feeling is ‘Oh, I’m gonna do The Iliad. Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, on August 28, 1952. But my feeling is that, if you’re angry at something, you do not cut it off, and shutter yourself. And as I was growing up, I loved those great books, but I was also mad at them, angry at them. So it feels like a second home to be coming here. So I grew up with these books, and I argued with these books, and I moved beyond those books too, into the 20th and the 21st century. As I told some of you yesterday, my parents had invested in the great books of the Western world. “I have been looking forward to this for many reasons. ![]() What did Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove-the only author to speak at the College whose work was also selected for All College Seminar-have to say about the Great Books during her February lecture in Santa Fe? A lot actually-and here are a few selections from her recent reading at the college: MaRita Dove with students, President Roosevelt, Dean Sterling, and Assistant Dean Maggie McGuinness before her Santa Fe lecture. ![]()
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