Literary America
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Rita Dove

Akron, OHIO

  • Photo of Crowne Plaza Hotel — Akron, Ohio
    Quaker Oats silos in downtown, now a Crowne Plaza Hotel that adapted the shapes of the silos for its rooms. — Akron, Ohio

    Like martial swans in spring paraded against the city sky’s
    shabby blue, they were always too white and
    suddenly there.

    They were never fingers, never xylophones, although once
    a stranger said they put him in mind of Pan’s pipes
    and all the lost songs of Greece. But to the townspeople
    they were like cigarettes, the smell chewy and bitter
    like a field shorn of milkweed, or beer brewing, or
    a fingernail scorched over a flame.

    No, no, exclaimed the children. They’re a fresh packet of chalk,
    dreading math work.

    They were masculine toys. They were tall wishes. They
    were the ribs of the modern world.
    — Rita Dove
    “Silos”
    Grace Notes: Poems, 1989
  • Photo of AME Zion Church — Akron, Ohio
    In “Compendium,” Dove writes that Thomas gave up fine cordials and his houndstooth vest and became a “sweet tenor” in the gospel choir. At some point, it seems to have lost its power to inspire him. According to the chronology at the end, he quit the choir at this AME Zion Church in 1946. — Akron, Ohio

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Appendix :: Literary Destinations

Rita Dove

(1952-    )

Quaker Square Inn
at The University of Akron
135 South Broadway
Akron, OH 44325-9002

Wesley Temple AME Zion Church
104 N Prospect St
Akron, OH
Phone: (330) 434-5800
Website: wesleytemple.com

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A Journey Through Literary America

A Journey Through Literary America

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Explore the fascinating stories of 26 great American authors with images of the places that inspired them to write. It’s the perfect gift for book lovers. With over 140 photographs throughout, the images add mood and dimension to the writing – and they are often shockingly close to what the featured authors described in their own words. Lushly illustrated, and beautifully designed, the book is as much of a pleasure to look at as it is to read.

This is a volume for the literary enthusiast, the armchair traveler or the intrepid reader. It is a handsome and beautifully illustrated companion for those who seek to learn more about authors they have read and those who wish to discover new writers.

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Appendix :: Literary Destinations

Sherwood Anderson • Raymond Carver • Willa Cather • James Fenimore Cooper • Rita Dove • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Faulkner • Richard Ford • Robert Frost • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Ernest Hemingway • Langston Hughes • Washington Irving • Robinson Jeffers • Sinclair Lewis • Herman Melville • Henry Miller • Toni Morrison • Flannery O’Connor • E. Annie Proulx • Philip Roth • John Steinbeck • Wallace Stegner • Henry David Thoreau • John Updike • Thomas Wolfe
Toni Morrison
Henry Miller