American Smooth (Norton)
When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing. These new, as yet unpublished, poems explore the intersection of formal dance and an African-American distrust of assimilation.
Rita Dove
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Credits
Guest:
- Rita Dove - author, 'Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove'