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First African-American Woman Poet Laureate Of The United States

February 1, 2012 by · Comments Off on First African-American Woman Poet Laureate Of The United States 

First African-American Woman Poet Laureate Of The United States, 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, his name in the book as well as in real life) in the first half and her grandmother (named Beulah in the book, although her real name was Georgianna) in the second. It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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