Thomas and Beulah
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| Author | Rita Dove |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Ray A. Dove |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Publication date | 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 80 pp. |
| ISBN | 0-88748-021-7 (Paperback) |
| OCLC | 24955131 |
| 811/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3554.O884 T47 1986 |
| Preceded by | Fifth Sunday |
| Followed by | Grace Notes |
Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents, the focus being on her grandfather (Thomas, his name in the book as well as in real life) in the first half and her grandmother (named Beulah in the book, although her real name was Georgianna) in the second.[citation needed] It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.[1]
Contents
[edit]I. Mandolin
[edit]- The Event[a]
- Variation on Pain[a]
- Jiving[a]
- Straw Hat[b]
- Courtship[a]
- Refrain[a]
- Variation on Guilt[a]
- Nothing Down[c]
- The Zeppelin Factory[a]
- Under the Viaduct, 1932[b]
- Lightnin' Blues[d]
- Compendium[a]
- Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury[a]
- Aircraft[e]
- Aurora Borealis[a]
- Variation on Gaining a Son
- One Volume Missing[b]
- The Charm[a]
- Gospel[f]
- Roast Possum[b]
- The Stroke[a]
- The Satisfaction Coal Company[d]
- Thomas at the Wheel[c]
II. Canary in Bloom
[edit]- Taking in Wash[g]
- Magic[h]
- Courtship, Diligence[i]
- Promises
- Dusting[j][k][l]
- A Hill of Beans[m]
- Weathering Out[n]
- Motherhood
- Anniversary
- The House on Bishop Street
- Daystar[n]
- Obedience
- The Great Palaces of Versailles[j]
- Pomade[j][k]
- Headdress
- Sunday Greens[h]
- Recovery
- Nightmare
- Wingfoot Lake[m]
- Company
- The Oriental Ballerina[i][j]
III. Chronology
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review, 28
- ^ a b c d Also featured in Callaloo.
- ^ a b Also featured in The Reaper.
- ^ a b Also featured in Paris Review.
- ^ Also featured in CutBank.
- ^ Also featured in Georgia Review.
- ^ Also featured in Ploughshares.
- ^ a b Also shared in Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose
- ^ a b Also featured in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly.
- ^ a b c d Also featured in New American Poets of the Eighties, Wampeter Press, 1984
- ^ a b Also featured in Poetry.
- ^ Also featured in Pushcart Prize: VII, Pushcart Press, 1984, Museum, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1983, and The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, 1985.
- ^ a b Also featured in The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University Press of New England, 1985
- ^ a b Also featured in Agni Review.
References
[edit]- ^ "Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah: Breaking down barriers and keeping stories alive". Iowa Public Radio.