Rita Dove: An American Poet

January. 31,2014

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Poetry Documentary Film American Poetry

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A series of in-depth conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and October 2013. The film explores the poet's life, exposing fundamental facts of Dove's childhood and formative years growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1950s and during the turbulent 1960s, supplemented by selections from hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection.

Rita Dove as self

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