This author described a music box with a ballerina twirling "in the tips of a carnation" in another poem.
This author declared "If you can't be free, be a mystery" in one poem. The Mama of one of this author's title characters says: "Touch that child / and I'll cut you down / just like the cedar of Lebanon" in one poem. This author described a music box with a ballerina twirling "in the tips of a carnation" in another poem. This poet described two men "with nothing to boast of / but good looks and a mandolin" in "The Event". This author was attacked for glib critical judgments and "multicultural inclusiveness" in (*) "Are These the Poems to Remember?", a critique of her editing of The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry by Helen Vendler. A Pulitzer Prize-winning volume including the section "Canary in Bloom" is named for her maternal grandparents. For 10 points, name this author of Thomas and Beulah, the first African-American Poet Laureate of the U.S.
This author declared "If you can't be free, be a mystery" in one poem.
Rita (Frances) Dove