"I am deeply grateful to the women who really blazed the way-poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and Maxine Kumin."
— Rita Dove

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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1992 interview included in Conversations with Rita Dove Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll (2003)