| Rita Dove: An American Poet | |
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 Photo by Montes-Bradley. | |
| Directed by | Eduardo Montes-Bradley |
| Produced by | Heritage Film Project |
| Starring | Rita Dove |
| Music by | Judith Shatin, Franz Peter Schubert, Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Distributed by | Alexander Street Press Filmakers Library, Kanopy |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Rita Dove: An American Poet is a 2014 documentary film produced, directed and edited by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. It is a biographical sketch of U.S. Poet Laureate and National Medal of Arts winner Rita Dove.
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.[1][2]
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- ^ Maurer, David A. "New documentary about Rita Dove explores music, family and other forces that shaped a poet". The Daily Progress. Retrieved 2020-12-09.