American Smooth (poetry collection)
{{short description|Book by Rita Dove}}
{{Infobox book
| name = American Smooth
| image = Rita Dove - American Smooth Poems.jpeg
| caption = First edition
| author = Rita Dove
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = Poetry
| publisher = W.W. Norton
| release_date = 2004
| media_type = Print
| pages = 143 pp.
| isbn = 978-0-393-05987-8
| dewey= 811/.54 22
| congress= PS3554.O884 A77 2004
| oclc= 55488060
| preceded_by = On the Bus with Rosa Parks
| followed_by = Sonata Mulattica
}}
American Smooth is a poetry book by Rita Dove.{{cite web | url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=16818 | title=American Smooth | last=Donahue | first=Cecilia | publisher=The Literary Encyclopedia}} (subscription required to view full article)
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 {{cite web | url=http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6723 | title=American Smooth by Rita Dove | publisher=Poetry Archive}}
- The castle walk
- The passage
- Noble sissle's horn
- Alfonzo prepares to go over the top
- La Chapelle. 92nd Division. Ted
- Variation on reclamation
- The return of Lieutenant James Reese Europe
- Ripont
- Chocolate
- Bolero
- Hattie McDaniel arrives at the coconut grove
- Samba summer
- Blues in half-tones, 3/4 time
- Describe yourself in three words or less
- The seven veils of Salomé
- From your valentine
- Rhumba
- The sisters: swansong.
- Evening primrose
- Reverie in open air
- Sic itur ad astra
- Count to ten and we'll be there
- Eliza, age 10, Harlem
- Lullaby
- Driving through
- Desert backyard
- Desk dreams
- Now
- Against flight
- Looking up from the page, I am reminded of this mortal coil.
Reviews
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/byrnereviewdove.html| title=RITA DOVE: AMERICAN SMOOTH| journal=Valparaiso Review| author= Edward Byrne |date=2004–2005 }}
- {{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/books/review/21NUSSBAU.html?_r=1| title=American Smooth: Dance Fever| author= Emily Nussbaum| work=The New York Times| date=November 21, 2004 }}
References
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