The Poet's World, a new Library of Congress publication bringing together the two lectures delivered by 1993-95 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Rita Dove during her tenure at the Library, has just been published. Ms. Dove closed the Library's 1993-94 literary reading series with a lecture and opened the 1994-95 series with a second, conceiving of the two as an address to a single theme.
"Stepping Out: The Poet in the World" and "'A Handful of Inwardness': The World in the Poet" have been brought together in this volume, along with her autobiography, the poem "Lady Freedom Among Us" and photographs documenting her term.
