Contents -- Abbreviations and Documentation -- Bio-Critical Introduction, State of the Art, and Outlook: The Aim of Crossing Color -- 1 Rita Dove's Macro-Poetics of Space -- The Macro-Poetics of Cultural Space -- Theoretical Concepts of Cultural Space -- Cultural Space "In the Old Neighborhood" -- 2 Rita Dove's Micro-Poetics of Space -- Borders, Boundaries -- Movements -- Space beyond Borders and Movements -- 3 Movements of a Marriage -- Or, Looking Awry at U.S. History -- 4 Transcultural Space, Place, and Movement in the Bildungs-and Künstlerroman: Through the Ivory Gate -- 5 Myths' Remakes -- The Darker Face of the Earth -- Mother Love -- 6 The Voyage Out: On the Bus with Rosa Parks -- Cameos -- Freedom: Bird's Eye View -- Black on a Saturday Night -- Revenant -- On the Bus with Rosa Parks -- Conclusions -- In Conversation with Rita Dove -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.