On the Bus with Rosa Parks
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On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a poetry book by Rita Dove.[1]
Contents
- July, 1925
- Night
- Birth
- Lake Erie skyline, 1930
- Depression years
- Homework
- Graduation, grammar school
- Painting the town
- Easter Sunday, 1940
- Nightwatch. The son
- Singsong
- I cut my finger once on purpose
- Parlor
- The first book
- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967
- Freedom: bird's-eye view
- Testimonial
- Dawn revisited
- My mother enters the work force
- Black on a Saturday night
- The musician talks about "process"
- Sunday
- The camel comes to us from the barbarians
- The Venus of Willendorf
- Incarnation in Phoenix
- Best Western Motor Lodge, AAA approved
- Revenant
- On Veronica
- There came a soul
- The peach orchard
- Against repose Against self-pity
- Götterdämmerung
- Ghost walk
- Lady Freedom among us
- For Sophie, who'll be in first grade in the year 2000
- Sit back, relax
- "The situation is intolerable"
- Freedom ride
- Climbing in
- Claudette Colvin goes to work
- The enactment
- Rosa
- QE2. Transatlantic crossing. Third Day.
- In the lobby of the Warner Theatre, Washington, D.C.
- The pond, porch-view: six P.M., early spring.
References
External links
Categories:
- American poetry collections
- 1999 works
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