• Source: Thomas and Beulah

      • Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents during the Great Migration, 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, making Dove the second African American to win the award after Gwendolyn Brooks won in 1950.


      Contents




      = I. Mandolin

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


      = II. Canary in Bloom

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      Taking in Wash
      Magic
      Courtship, Diligence
      Promises
      Dusting
      A Hill of Beans
      Weathering Out
      Motherhood
      Anniversary
      The House on Bishop Street
      Daystar
      Obedience
      The Great Palaces of Versailles
      Pomade
      Headdress
      Sunday Greens
      Recovery
      Nightmare
      Wingfoot Lake
      Company
      The Oriental Ballerina


      = III. Chronology

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      Critical Engagement


      Malin Pereira has argued that one of the central functions of Thomas and Beulah is to redefine what "home" means in a cosmopolitan context, such as the kind in which many African Americans found themselves after the Great Migration.


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      External links


      Online poem, Straw Hat, from Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove at alittlepoetry.com

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