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Mother Love

Mother Love

by Rita Dove
Mother Love

Mother Love

by Rita Dove

Overview

Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the 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 Greek myth itself—Rita Dove explores this relationship and the dilemma of letting go.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393314441
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 05/17/1996
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U. S. Poet Laureate, is the only poet honored with both the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of Arts. Her recent works include Playlist for the Apocalypse, Sonata Mulattica, and the National Book Award-shortlisted Collected Poems: 1974-2004. In 2021 she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2023 she received the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives in Charlottesville, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia.
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Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
African American Poetry
American poetry->20th century
American poetry->African American authors->20th century
American poetry->African American women authors
American poetry->Women authors->20th century

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