Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove

Th Silenced Violin

By Mark Doty
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the April 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Mark Doty reviews Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove, a suite of linked poems dramatizing the life of violinist George Polgreen Bridgewater, son of a European woman and a self-proclaimed "African prince."

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