On the bus with Rosa Parks
Subtitle: poems
By: Rita Dove.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers -- Poetry; Civil rights movements -- Poetry; African American women -- Poetry; African Americans -- Poetry
Description: A new collection by a much celebrated poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," which probes the private griefs and dreams of a working-class family, to the emblematic grace of a living legend like Rosa Parks, who acquiesced to public life in order to "serve the public good," these poems explore the intersection of individual fates with the grand arc of history.

If there are heroes, Dove maintains, they continually reinvent themselves, as each of us must do each morning.