Mother Love: Poems

Mother Love: Poems

<p><strong>Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, <em>Mother Love</em> examines the love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother.</strong></p> 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 />