On the Bus with Rosa Parks : Poems

Rita Dove
W. W. Norton & Company
 9780393320268
0-393-32026-X

In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos", to the civil rights struggle.

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of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.