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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 ...
- Rita Dove
- 2004
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. stopping, two chests heaving. above a seven-league. stride—such perfect agony, one learns to smile through, ecstatic mimicry.
20 dic 2012 · Rita Dove. Publication date. 2004. Topics. National characteristics, American -- Poetry., African Americans -- Poetry. Publisher. W.W. Norton & Co. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.
4 ago 2023 · The lessons of Rita Dove’s “American Smooth,” one of the best-loved poems of the last two decades.
of American Smooth. And because I was distracted by the effort of keeping my frame (the leftward lean, head turned just enough to gaze out past your ear and always smiling, smiling), I didn’t notice how still you’d become until we had done it (for two measures? four?) – achieved flight, that swift and serene magnificence, before the earth
‘American Smooth’ by Rita Dove is a lovely poem in which the speaker depicts her experiences with a dance partner. In the first part of the poem, the speaker describes the concentration it requires to get the steps of a “romantic” but restrained dance correct.
American Smooth. "Rita Dove pulls the ultimate dance trick: she makes it look easy." -- New York Times Book Review. An occasion to celebrate: a new collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate; her first since On the Bus with Rosa Parks.
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