NEW YORK (AP) — Poet Rita Dove has a sharp, simple goal in response to receiving a National Book Award for lifetime achievement: “I want it to be a milestone, not a tombstone.” “It may seem like a rather macabre metaphor, but I simply meant — knock on wood — that I haven’t reached the […]
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Poet Rita Dove is this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for “Distinguished Contribution to American Letters,” a lifetime achievement prize previously given to Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo among others
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Besides the Pulitzer, she has received both a National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts, an NAACP Image Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and a National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
Besides the Pulitzer, she has received both a National Humanities Medal and National Medal of Arts, an NAACP Image Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation and a National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress.
“They are meaningful books for my children, but I haven’t read them,” says the novelist and story writer, whose new book is the collection “Wednesday’s Child.”