Title: On the Bus with Rosa Parks
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Poetry, African American women civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, African Americans, African American women, Civil rights, Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times reviewed
LC classification: PS3554.O884 O52 1999