![]() Women work hard through exercise, diet, and other means in order to achieve their " navels sunk in." Their children who they have sacrificed so much for have "emptied" them in every possible way. ![]() The caesura is the pause of reflection on her statement, realizing the truth within it. They want to fit into these sizes, and the requirements of society, in order to fit "every man-child's pre-adolescent dream." She attests that we know better and "tabula rasa" isn't a good excuse for our ignorance. Women are confined to "size threes" in order to fit all the popular fashion styles. This poem discusses the social pressures of body image women face and limited ways to attain it. Her other books include Museum (1983), Mother Love (1995) and American Smooth (2004). Dove has also published a collection of short stories, Fifth Sunday (1985) and a novel, Through the Ivory Gate (1992), and collaborated with composer John Williams on a piece for the 1999 Steven Spielberg documentary The Unfinished Journey. She has won numerous awards, grants, fellowships and honorary degrees, and is one of the ![]() She published her first book of poems, The Yellow House on the Corner, in 1980, and in 1987 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Thomas and Beulah. In 1989 she took a faculty position with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, and is currently a professor of English there. Dove was educated in Ohio, Germany and Iowa and first began teaching in the English department of the University of Arizona in 1981. Rita Dove was the youngest person and the first African-American ever named Poet Laureate of the United States.
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