Rita Dove is a masterful poet, capable of taking on varied forms and subjects both serious and silly with intelligence and nuance. The juxtaposition of a finely done concrete poem like "Mirror" next to the fun found poem "Found Sonnet: The Wig" neatly shows off her skill. She is equally at home in 16th century Venice and across American history as she is in the contemporary moment and the mundanity of everyday life. Perhaps no poem captures the latter so much as "Ode on a Shopping List Found in Last Season's Shorts", its casual start building up to a well-earned gut punch elevates it to the level of (and perhaps even above) one of my favorite similarly deceptive poems, Deborah Digges's "Seersucker Suit". Dove is approachable and exquisite, a treasure for novices and old pros alike.