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Mother love : poems / Rita Dove.
LIBRA PS3554.O884 M68 1996 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dove, Rita.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Poetry.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 77 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [Norton paperback edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1996.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Heroes
- 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
- Persephone in hell
- Hades' pitch
- Wiederkehr
- Wiring home
- The bistro styx
- Blue days
- Nature's itinerary
- Sonnet in primary colors
- Demeter mourning
- Exit
- Afield
- Lost brilliance
- Political.
- Demeter, waiting
- Lamentations
- Teotihuacan
- History
- Used
- Rusks
- Missing
- Demeter's prayer to Hades
- Her island.
- Notes:
- "U.S. poet laureate 1993-1995"--Cover.
- ISBN:
- 0393314448
- 9780393314441
- OCLC:
- 35365166
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