Mother Love: Poems

by Rita Dove

Book Overview

In settings as various as a patio in Arizona, the bistros and boulevards of Paris, the sun-drenched pyramids of Mexico--and directly from the Greek myth itself--Rita Dove explores this relationship and the dilemma of letting go.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393314448
• ISBN13: 9780393314441
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"

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.