Mother Love Poems

by Dove, Rita

• ISBN13: 9780393314441
• ISBN10: 0393314448
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword: An Intact World	xi
I.
Heroes	3	(4)
II.
Primer	7	(1)
Party Dress for a First Born	8	(1)
Persephone, Falling	9	(1)
The Search	10	(1)
Protection	11	(1)
The Narcissus Flower	12	(1)
Persephone Abducted	13	(1)
Statistic: The Witness	14	(1)
Grief: The Council	15	(2)
Mother Love	17	(1)
Breakfast of Champions	18	(1)
Golden Oldie	19	(4)
III.
Persephone in Hell	23	(14)
IV.
Hades' Pitch	37	(1)
Wiederkehr	38	(1)
Wiring Home	39	(1)
The Bistro Styx	40	(5)
Blue Days	45	(1)
V.
Nature's Itinerary	46	(1)
Sonnet in Primary Colors	47	(1)
Demeter Mourning	48	(1)
Exit	49	(1)
Afield	50	(1)
Lost Brilliance	51	(4)
VI.
Political	55	(1)
Demeter, Waiting	56	(1)
Lamentations	57	(1)
Teotihuacan	58	(1)
History	59	(1)
Used	60	(1)
Rusks	61	(1)
Missing	62	(1)
Demeter's Prayer to Hades	63	(4)
VII.
Her Island	67	(12)
About the Author	79