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Mother love : poems
- Title
- Mother love : poems / Rita Dove.
- Author
- Dove, Rita
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3554.O884 M68 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry NjP
- Description
- 77 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- A collection of poems derived from the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone that explores the love between mother and daughter.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- American poetry
- Poésie.
- 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 -- Teotihuacán -- History -- Used -- Rusks -- Missing -- Demeter's prayer to Hades -- Her island.
- ISBN
- 9780393038088
- 0393038084
- LCCN
- 95005394
- OCLC
- ocm31971278
- 31971278
- SCSB-9605535
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library