![]() By Doves use of the word anachronism- she means that her daughter is. Published during Rita Dove’s tenure as poet laureate, Mother Love shows her grace and skill as a poet. In the poem The Bistro Styx- we find Rita Dove working with the ideas of home life. (Hord) Dove married Fred Viebahn (a writer. ![]() Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952 as the daughter of the first Black. Last Updated on May 5, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. DOVE, Rita (Frances) 1952-PERSONAL:Born August 28, 1952, in Akron, OH daughter of Ray A. We update this website regularly with new information and writers. Rita Dove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American Poet. The Dove-Viebahn family kindly provided pictures of the time showing various aspects of their life in Iowa City. In Iowa City, Dove lived in a rented apartment at 24 Van Buren Street, and Fred Viebahn lived in the Mayflower dorm. In 1993, she was named Commonwealth Professor of English, a position she continues to hold. Mother Love is not the first of Dove’s volumes to address motherhood. ![]() She is currently a Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She is married to the German novelist Fred Viebahn, and they have a daughter, Aviva. ![]() from Miami University in 1973 and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1977. The speaker is a daughter who is missing and has various identities: Persephone and any missing daughter (and broadly, any daughter) who at some point in her life is missing to her mother. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she lives with her husband, German writer Fred Viebahn. Her mother, Elvira Dove nee Hord, had been an honors student in high school and loved to read literature - a passion her daughter would share with her early on.ĭove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. Mother Love calls upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone to examine the tenacity of love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in. Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952 as the daughter of the first African American research chemist who broke the race barrier in the tire industry. ![]()
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