Dove earned a bachelor's degree from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, where she enrolled as a National Achievement Scholar; in 1973 she graduated summa cum laude. During the year that followed, she studied at West Germany's Tubingen University on a Fulbright scholarship. Her study there led to graduate studies at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She went on from there to begin publishing her impressive list of poems and short stories. In 1979 Dove married Fred Viebahn, a German-born novelist, and together they have a daughter, Aviva Chantal Tamu Dove-Viebahn. The family lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In 1974 Dove's poems began to appear in major periodicals. After two early chapbooks Dove's first full-length book of poems, The Yellow House on the Corner, was published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1980. This publication was followed, after another chapbook, by Museum (1983), and in 1986 Thomas and Beulah appeared.
Dove's concept of poetry is akin to that of such other modern American poets as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and Gwendolyn Brooks, especially as to rhetorical structure.
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