Mother Love

Name: Mother Love
Author: Rita Dove

by Rita Dove

Lyric sequence retelling the Demeter-Persephone myth in contemporary voice

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Rita Dove

American poet who was the youngest and first African American to serve as US Poet Laureate. Thomas and Beulah won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and reconstructs her grandparents' lives in verse.

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