Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619320142
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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"As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library Journal In her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry. As Adrienne Rich has said of Valentine's work, "This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way." From "If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them": At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and damp, we were both at the desk at midnight asking if they had any heaters. They had one heater. You are ill, please you take it. Thank you for visiting my dream. * Can you breathe all right? Break the glass shout break the glass force the room break the thread Open the music behind the glass . . . Jean Valentine, a former State Poet of New York, earned a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567124
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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The collected works of one of America’s most innovative poets.
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1619321343
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 79
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"Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings."—The New York Times Book Review Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine's thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and compassion. Valentine leads us chronologically from childhood drawings and wartime memories to the present, where she addresses aging and the loss of loved ones. These poems of tender grace reflect on the small histories few ever fully see. Shirt in Heaven Come upon a snapshot of secret you, smiling like FDR, leaning on your crutches— come upon letters I thought I'd burned— I suppose you've got a place with lots of stairs. I'm at the end of something, you're at the beginning . . . —dearest, they told me a surgeon sat down in the hospital morgue, next to your body, & cried. He yelled at the aide to get out. His two sons had been your students. —me too, little-knowing— Jean Valentine is the current State Poet of New York and author of twelve books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain, which won the National Book Award. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University, and lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Alice James Books
ISBN: 193858452X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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"Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing."—Marie Howe
Author: Mohammed Kazim Ali
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472028618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's career by a range of poets, scholars, and admirers. Valentine's poetry has long been valued for its dreamlike qualities, its touches of the personal and the political, and its mesmerizing phrasing. Valentine is a National Book Award winner and was named the State Poet of New York in 2008. She has taught a number of popular workshops and has been awarded a Bunting Institute Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Prize.
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 9780819568502
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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New poems from a National Book Award winner
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher: Poetry from Alice James Books
ISBN: 9780914086819
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Eighteen new poems extend the trajectory of Jean Valentine's work. Included are selections from her four previous books: Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things, and The Messenger. Her themes of pilgrimage, time, and human connection are revealed in intense meditations.
Author: Jean Valentine
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.
Author: Marina T︠S︡vetaeva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882295944
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Two of America's most passionate poets work magic to unearth the true voice of Tsvetaeva, to open [her] veins.
Author: Lee Upton
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753965
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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The Muse of Abandonment examines personal and cultural forms of abandonment in the poetry of Charles Wright, Russell Edson, Jean Valentine, James Tate, and Louise Gluck. These poets register the tremors of the post-modern exhaustion of universals and a conflicted desire for authenticating presences. The first book to study these poets as members of a generation, The Muse of Abandonment analyses the poets' recasting of confessional and surrealistic legacies and discusses their reflections on coercion of thought and behavior, and an atmosphere in contemporary culture that would trivialize private sensibility.
