Collected Poems: 1974-2004 resists the crush of commerce

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he learns that his parents have been shot while working at their grocery store

but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear

from plankton to lobsters

"A rich and rewarding history of one of the most astounding ideas in physics and astronomy" (Marcia Bartusiak) - that the universe we know isn't the only one

Collected Poems: 1974-2004 resists the crush of commerceRita Dove's Collected Poems 1974 2004 showcases the wide ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U. S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art. Gathering thirty years and seven books, this volume compiles Dove's fresh reflections on adolescence in The Yellow House on the Corner and her irreverent musings in Museum. She sets the moving love story of Thomas and Beulah against the backdrop of