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A review by uniskorn
Mother Love by Rita Dove
5.0
Dove explores the mythos of Persephone and Demeter.
It's a collection of poetry about traveling, about the kidnapping and aftermath of Persephone, including Demeter's perspective. The reader is a guest in a different country, the kidnapped, the worried mother, the "other" in a different culture.
Readers can easily empathize with the roles that they might not experience, and perhaps during this time in the United States while many of us are reeling with the recent election, Dove's words speak vividly to a reality that we are experiencing. We are mother's to a country taken from our grasp, we are a homeland that sees its own people as outsiders. This collection is a call to empathy, a call to see the world and explore while embracing different cultures, a celebration of languages.
Give Dove's Mother Love a read, it inspires, it reminds, and it shows the vastness of love.
It's a collection of poetry about traveling, about the kidnapping and aftermath of Persephone, including Demeter's perspective. The reader is a guest in a different country, the kidnapped, the worried mother, the "other" in a different culture.
Readers can easily empathize with the roles that they might not experience, and perhaps during this time in the United States while many of us are reeling with the recent election, Dove's words speak vividly to a reality that we are experiencing. We are mother's to a country taken from our grasp, we are a homeland that sees its own people as outsiders. This collection is a call to empathy, a call to see the world and explore while embracing different cultures, a celebration of languages.
Give Dove's Mother Love a read, it inspires, it reminds, and it shows the vastness of love.