On the Bus with Rosa Parks

First edition. Slim 8vo, 95pp. Yellow cloth backstrip over black boards, lettered in black on spine; deckled fore-edges. Jacket design by Timothy Hsu.

Shortlisted for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award. A 1999 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Author's seventh collection of poetry, exploring the individual path taken against the arc of history. Former Poet Laureate of the United States, Rita Dove was awarded the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, amongst many other honours. "Dove's poems read like short films with the sound turned down. Centre-screen are vivid, often luscious details, while a quiet ironic voice-over points to the menace clouded by innocence or the sadness cramped by social niceties. She is an outstanding poet of the delicate nuances present in social complexity, of the lyric reflection embedded in the lyric journey." –Sarah Maguire, Times Literary Supplement