Rita Dove

Period 1---read aloud the rest of the poems in Mandolin

HMWK:  Read Beulah's section for Monday/  Test on Thomas and Beulah

Period 2--Work on Poetry Cycle --Due Wednesday, Nov. 16

Check out Rita Dove videos:

www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21787

www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21327


www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20412

The First Book
Rita Dove

Open it.

Go ahead, it won't bite.
Well...maybe a little

More a nip, like.  A tingle.
It's pleasurable, really.

You see, it keeps on opening.
You may fall in.

Sure, it's hard to get started;
remember learning to use

knife and fork?  Dig in:
You'll never reach bottom.

It's not like it's the end of the world--
just the world as you think

you know it.