Download or read book Through the Ivory Gate written by Rita Dove and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1993-10-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love--and truths about her family. Author readings.