num_pages: 77
description: 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. 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.
language: English
title: Mother Love
titlecomplete: Mother Love
genres: American, Feminism, African American, Read For School, Literature, Black Literature, Mythology, Poetry, Nonfiction, Academic
ratings_count: 581
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company