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Mother Love: Poems
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: May 17th, 1996
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: Norton Pbk - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.27in - 5.54in - 0.40in - 0.31lb
- EAN: 9780393314441
- Categories: • American - African American & Black• Subjects & Themes - Family• Women Authors
About the Author
Dove, Rita: - 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.
Praise for this book
This volume shows Dove--Pulitzer Prize winner, novelist, and 1993-95 U.S. Poet Laureate--at the height of her poetic powers.-- "Publishers Weekly"
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"