 |  Rita Dove will be introduced by Major Jackson. Tom Sleigh will introduce Philip Levine.
"Rita Dove has always refused to be confined by category," wrote The New York Times. "Her poems wander into unexpected metaphor and subject matter." In poems, prose and a short play, Dove's new book, Sonata Mullatica, reimagines the life and times of George Polgreen Bridgetower, a 19th-century violin virtuoso. Philip Levine "is extraordinary, a visionary of our dense, troubled, mysterious time," wrote Joyce Carol Oates. "The grittiest and most brutal of his poems is, to me, an experience I would not hesitate to call ineffable." Levine's new collection is News of the World. | |
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