Mother Love: Poems - Hardcover

Dove, Rita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393038084 ISBN 13: 9780393038088

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Synopsis

In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico-and directly from the Greek myth itself-Rita Dove explores this relationship and the dilemma of letting go.

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Review:

"Mother Love is an unsparing book. . . . Rita Dove's laser glance exposes and cauterizes its subjects in new and disturbing ways." -- Helen Vendler - The New Yorker "This volume shows Dove-Pulitzer Prize winner, novelist, and 1993-95 U.S. Poet Laureate-at the height of her poetic powers." -- Publishers Weekly

Synopsis:

Marking the end of Pulitzer Prize-winner Rita Dove's two-year term as Poet Laureate of the United States, this new collection again confirms her extraordinary power and grace as a poet. "Mother Love" calls upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone to examine the tenacity of love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother. In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico - and directly from the corridors of the Greek myth itself - Dove explores this relationship and presents a modern dilemma as well - the dilemma of a mother's letting go.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0393038084
• ISBN 13: 9780393038088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96