Thomas and Beulah

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Thomas and Beulah
AuthorRita Dove
Cover artistRay A. Dove
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
PublisherCarnegie Mellon University Press
Publication date
1986
Media typePrint
Pages80 pp.
ISBN0-88748-021-7 (Paperback)
OCLC24955131
811/.54 20
LC ClassPS3554.O884 T47 1986
Preceded byFifth Sunday 
Followed byGrace 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, 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.

Contents[edit]

I. Mandolin[edit]

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

II. Canary in Bloom[edit]

  • Taking in Wash[g]
  • Magic[h]
  • Courtship, Diligence[i]
  • Promises
  • Dusting[j][k][l]
  • A Hill of Beans[m]
  • Weathering Out[n]
  • Motherhood
  • Anniversary
  • The House on Bishop Street
  • Daystar[n]
  • Obedience
  • The Great Palaces of Versailles[j]
  • Pomade[j][k]
  • Headdress
  • Sunday Greens[h]
  • Recovery
  • Nightmare
  • Wingfoot Lake[m]
  • Company
  • The Oriental Ballerina[i][j]

III. Chronology[edit]

Notes[edit]

  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 Also featured in Callaloo.
  3. ^ a b Also featured in The Reaper.
  4. ^ a b Also featured in Paris Review.
  5. ^ Also featured in CutBank.
  6. ^ Also featured in Georgia Review.
  7. ^ Also featured in Ploughshares.
  8. ^ a b Also shared in Nimrod International Journal of Poetry & Prose
  9. ^ a b Also featured in New England Review and 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.

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