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(ThyBlackMan.com) Rita Dove is one of the most celebrated poets of our time. As the youngest person to serve as Poet Laureate of the United States and the recipient of numerous accolades ...

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Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove, reprinted by permission of W.W. Norton and Company Inc. Note: this poem is included for reference purposes, please refer to your anthology ...

“Dove’s richly imagined book,” writes Mark Doty, “has the sweep and vivid characters of a novel but it’s written with a poet’s economy and eye for exact detail.” Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of ...

The poem has a dreamy, wandering tone Dove uses digression (deviation from the central theme), flitting from subject to subject in a dreamlike way. The use of dashes in each verse interrupts the ...

It is suggested that Rita Dove wrote ‘Cozy Apologia’ as a tribute to her husband American poet, Rita Dove is married to fellow-writer Fred Viebahn and Cozy Apologia seems to be an affectionate ...