Rita Dove has earned a Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal, and a National Medal of Art, and she has served as Poet Laureate of the United States. In Collected Poems: 1974–2004, W. W. Norton has compiled seven books of poety, including Museum: Poems (Carnegie Mellon, 1983), Mother, Love (W. W. Norton, 1995), and American Smooth (W. W. Norton, 2004), into one unabridged volume.