Winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry, this book has received widespread recognition. Since the 1965 publication of her first book, "Dream Barker", selected for the Yale Younger Poets Award, Jean Valentine has published eight collections of poetry. Spare and intensely felt, Valentine's poems present experience as only imperfectly ...
"Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt- / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last. . . ." And so begins Jean Valentine's provocative new work, "Lucy," a poem that pays homage to the three million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid. With a deep sense of gratitude and profound longing, this ...
In this, Valentine's eighth collection, subtle poems with vivid images course with a feminist undercurrent. The first of two sections deals with death and loss, while the second directly addresses the complexities faced by women writers. Throughout, the work is spare and moving.
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.
Following her National Book Award-winning "Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems", 1965-2003, Jean Valentine returns with a meditative and magical new collection. In "Little Boat", Valentine continues her exploration of spiritual life, confronting the realities of aging and death in the serene and dreamlike voice so beloved by her many ...
"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
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine
Date Published: 2007
Description: Goodrich, Carter (cover art) Very Good- No Jacket. 8" x 11. Has light shelfwear. Some soiling, covers wrinkled some, Mailing label on front cover. This issue includes To My Soul by Valentine, Jean; Mercury Dressing by McClatchy, J. D.; Something Like Happy by Burnside, John; and Geckos in Obscure Light by Logan, William. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine
Date Published: 1984
Description: Stevenson, James (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 94pp. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes Visit by Valentine, Jean; Expectancy by Salter, Mary Jo; The Last Days of Heaven by Cole, Richard; Our Janice by Gardiner, John Rolfe; and Sindbad by Barthelme, Donald. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine
Date Published: 1989
Description: O'Brien, John (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 164pp. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes The Summer Was Not Long Enough by Valentine, Jean; Ambition by Carson, Ciaran; Hooks by Zinik, Zinovy; Myers, Alan (trans. ); Orchestrion by Kleinschmidt, Edward; and Ocean Avenue by Chabon, Michael. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine
Date Published: 1989
Description: O'Brien, John (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 164pp. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes The Summer Was Not Long Enough by Valentine, Jean; Ambition by Carson, Ciaran; Hooks by Zinik, Zinovy; Myers, Alan (trans. ); Orchestrion by Kleinschmidt, Edward; and Ocean Avenue by Chabon, Michael. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New Yorker Magazine
Date Published: 1978
Description: Martin, Charles E. (cover art) Very Good. No Jacket. 8" x 11. 96pp. Has light soiling and rubbing cover. This issue includes The Messenger by Valentine, Jean; The Trip(Illus. ) by Saxon, Charles; The Bus by Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Singer, Joseph (trans. ); Fergus Falling by Kinnell, Galway; and What They Did by Bosco, Freddy. read more
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