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American Smooth is a poetry book by Rita Dove. Contents. All souls "I have been a stranger in a strange land" Fox trot Fridays; Ta ta cha cha; Quick; Brown; Fox; Heart to heart; Cozy apologia; Soprano; Two for the Montrose drive-in; Meditation at fifty yards, moving target; American smooth ; The castle walk; The passage; Noble sissle ...
American Smooth. By Rita Dove. We were dancing—it must have. been a foxtrot or a waltz, something romantic but. requiring restraint, rise and fall, precise. execution as we moved. into the next song without.
‘American Smooth’ by Rita Dove is a thirty-one-line poem that is contained within a single stanza of text. The lines do not follow a specific rhyme scheme , but close readers will be able to find examples of half-rhyme within the text.
4 août 2023 · Rita Dove’s 2004 poem “American Smooth” is, for good reason, one of this still-young century’s best-known and most beloved. It’s a poem about a peak moment between two dance partners. It’s...
Poems. Read the poem text. My husband and I took up ballroom dancing and a whole series of poems emerged because of that, forming the nucleus of a book that is called American Smooth. I will read that title poem for you.
An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks.
1 janv. 2004 · A new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate celebrates America's cultural heritage with pieces about such topics as World War I's African-American jazz band, a Harlem girl's examination of adult flirting behaviors, and the first African-American Oscar winner. 20,000 first printing.
