Full name: Sonata Mulattica: Poems

Author: Rita Dove Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Poetry, Music, History, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393070088 0393070085

The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) travels to Vienna to meet "bad-boy" genius Ludwig van Beethoven. The great composer's subsequent sonata is originally dedicated to the young mulatto, but George, exuberant with acclaim, offends Beethoven over a woman. From this crucial encounter evolves a grandiose yet melancholy poetic tale. Similar books: The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes Dear Darkness by Kevin Young Prelude to Bruise by Saeed Jones The new black by Evie Shockley The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 by Lucille Clifton Wounded in the House of a Friend by Sonia Sanchez The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur Naming Our Destiny by June Jordan The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou The Black Poets by Dudley Randall The Far Field by Theodore Roethke Garbage by A. R. Ammons Lighthead by Terrance Hayes The Bridge by Hart Crane Stranger Music by Leonard Cohen Thrall by Natasha Trethewey Because You Died by Vera Brittain The Lords and the New Creatures by Jim Morrison Solipsist by Henry Rollins