Product Description

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. Author readings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #590948 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

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

About the Author
Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner, and herself a musician, lives in Charlottesville, where she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Customer Reviews

America's Poet Laureate!
Rita Dove is not as well-known as Nikki Giovanni or Maya Angelou but she is one of the more accomplished female poets and African Americans of this generation. Her poetry is often simple at times but there are several levels and new information is given regarding her poetry. In this book, she calls upon the ancient Greeks and examines the love between mother and daughter. The poems' settings are as various as Arizona and the streets of Paris and Mexican pyramids. Rita Dove's love of poetry comes through in her work and she should be better known to today's readers.

Best african American female Poet
Rita Dove book, Mother Loves: Poems, Is one of the best book I've ever read. Its so lovely, and eligant. Thank You.