Thomas and Beulah

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Thomas and Beulah
Author Rita Dove
Cover artist Ray A. Dove
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Poetry
Publisher Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Harper and Row)
Publication date 1986
Media type Print
Pages 80 pp.
ISBN ISBN 0-88748-021-7 (Paperback)
Preceded by Fifth Sunday
Followed by Grace Notes

Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents, the focus being on her grandfather Thomas in the first half and her grandmother Beulah in the second. It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

[edit] Contents

I. Mandolin

  • The Event[1]
  • Variation on Pain[1]
  • Jiving[1]
  • Straw Hat[2]
  • Courtship[1]
  • Refrain[1]
  • Variation on Guilt[1]
  • Nothing Down[3]
  • The Zeppelin Factory[1]
  • Under the Viaduct, 1932[2]
  • Lightnin' Blues[4]
  • Compendium[1]
  • Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury[1]
  • Aircraft[5]
  • Aurora Borealis[1]
  • Variation on Gaining a Son
  • One Volume Missing[2]
  • The Charm[1]
  • Gospel[6]
  • Roast Possum[2]
  • The Stroke[1]
  • The Satisfaction Coal Company[4]
  • Thomas at the Wheel[3]

II. Canary in Bloom

Chronology

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[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Also featured in Callaloo.
  3. ^ a b c Also featured in The Reaper.
  4. ^ a b c Also featured in Paris Review.
  5. ^ a b c Also featured in Cutbank.
  6. ^ Also featured in Georgia Review.
  7. ^ Also featured in Ploughshares.
  8. ^ a b Also featured in Nimrod.
  9. ^ a b Also featured in New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly.
  10. ^ a b c d Also featured in New American Poets of the Eighties, Wampeter Press, 1984
  11. ^ a b Also featured in Poetry.
  12. ^ Also featured in Pushcart Prize: VII, Pushcart Press, 1984, Museum, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1983, and The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, 1985.
  13. ^ a b Also featured in The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University Press of New England, 1985
  14. ^ a b Also featured in Agni Review.