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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.

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"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

Mother Love

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    A Paperback / softback by Rita Dove

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      Publisher WW Norton & Co
      Published 28 August 1996
      ISBN-13 9780393314441
      978-0393314441
      ISBN-10 0393314448

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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

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