Mother love : poems / Rita Dove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dove, Rita.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

African American women--Poetry.

African American women.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 77 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1995.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Foreword: An Intact World

I. Heroes

II. Primer. Party Dress for a First Born; Persephone Falling; The Search; Protection; The Narcissus Flower; Persephone Abducted; Statistic: The Witness; Grief: The Council; Mother Love; Breakfast of Champions; Golden Oldie

III. Persephone in Hell

IV. Hades' Pitch; Wiederkehr; Writing Home; The Bistro Styx

V. Blue Days; Nature's Itinerary; Sonnet in Primary Colors; Demeter Mourning; Exit; Afield; Lost Brilliance

VI. Political; Demeter, Waiting; Lamentations; Teotihuacán; History; Used; Rusks; Missing; Demeter's Prayer to Hades

VII. Her Island.

Notes:

"U.S. Poet Laureate 1993-1995"--Cover.

"Jacket design by Debra Morton Hoyt."

"Jacket art: In a Green Shade, 1984, by Romare Bearden ..."

"The text of this book is composed on Aldus with the display set in New Rix Fancy, Weiss Initials No. 2, and Baker Signet."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collecction copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0393038084 :

OCLC:

31971278