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Dusting
Rita Dove, “Dusting” from Thomas and Beulah (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1986). Copyright © 1986 by Rita Dove. Reprinted with
the permission of the author.
Source: Poetry (November 1981).
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Biography
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952, the daughter of one of the first black chemists in the tire industry. Dove was encouraged to read widely by her parents, and excelled in school. She was named a Presidential Scholar, one of the top one hundred high-school graduates in the country and attended Miami University in Ohio as a National Merit Scholar. After graduating, Dove received a Fulbright to study at the University of . . .
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Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Family & Ancestors, Pets, Relationships
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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