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    Rita Dove

    American Smooth (Norton) When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing...

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Mar 25, 2004 • 30m Listen

    American Smooth (Norton)

    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 These new, as yet unpublished, poems explore the intersection of formal dance and an African-American distrust of assimilation.

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      Rita Dove

      American Smooth (Norton) When her house burned down, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove decided to learn formal ballroom dancing...

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