Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah is a book of poems by African American poet Rita Dove that tells the semi-fictionalized chronological story of her maternal grandparents, the focus being on her grandfather in the first half and her grandmother in the second. It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.Contents
I. Mandolin
- 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
III. Chronology
