Thomas and Beulah

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Title Thomas and Beulah

Author	Rita Dove
Cover artist	Ray A. Dove
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Poetry
Publisher	Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Harper and Row)
Released	1986
Media type	Print
Pages	80 pp.
ISBN	ISBN 0-88748-021-7 (Paperback)
Preceded by	Fifth Sunday
Followed by	Grace Notes

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

[edit] Contents

I. Mandolin

• The Event

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Variation on Pain

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Jiving

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Straw Hat

(also featured in Callaloo)

• Courtship

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Refrain

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Variation on Guilt

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Nothing Down

(also featured in The Reaper)

• The Zeppelin Factory

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Under the Viaduct, 1932

(also featured in Callaloo)

• Lightnin' Blues

(also featured in Paris Review)

• Compendium

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Aircraft

(also featured in Cutbank)

• Aurora Borealis

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Variation on Gaining a Son
• One Volume Missing

(also featured in Callaloo)

• The Charm

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• Gospel

(also featured in Georgia Review)

• Roast Possum

(also featured in Callaloo)

• The Stroke

(also featured in a chapbook titled Mandolin in Ohio Review 28)

• The Satisfaction Coal Company

(also featured in Paris Review)

• Thomas at the Wheel

(also featured in The Reaper)

II. Canary in Bloom

• Taking in Wash

(also featured in Ploughshares)

• Magic

(also featured in Nimrod)

• Courtship, Diligence

(also featured in Cutbank and New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly)

• Promises

(also featured in Callaloo)

• Dusting

(also featured in Poetry, Pushcart Prize: VII, Pushcart Press, 1984, Museum, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1983 and The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, 1985)

• A Hill of Beans

(also featured in The Reaper and The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University Press of New England, 1985)

• Weathering Out

(also featured in Agni Review)

• Motherhood

(also featured in Callaloo)

• Anniversary
• The House on Bishop Street

(also featured in Callaloo)

• Daystar

(also featured in Agni Review)

• Obedience

(also featured in Cutbank)

• The Great Palaces of Versailles

(also featured in New American Poets of the Eighties, Wampeter Press, 1984)

• Pomade

(also featured in Poetry and New American Poets of the Eighties, Wampeter Press, 1984)

• Headdress
• Sunday Greens

(also featured in Nimrod)

• Recovery
• Nightmare

(also featured in Callaloo)

• Wingfoot Lake

(also featured in Paris Review and The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, University Press of New England, 1985)

• Company

(also featured in Callaloo)

• The Oriental Ballerina

(also featured in New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly and New American Poets of the Eighties, Wampeter Press, 1984))

Chronology