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Mother Love - by Rita Dove (Paperback)

Mother Love - by  Rita Dove (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br /><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>Mother Love</em> is an unsparing book. . . . Rita Dove's laser glance exposes and cauterizes its subjects in new and disturbing ways.--Helen Vendler "The New Yorker"<br><br>This volume shows Dove--Pulitzer Prize winner, novelist, and 1993-95 U.S. Poet Laureate--at the height of her poetic powers.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br>

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