Results for "Valentine, Jean"

Multi-award winner, including a National Book Award, Jean Valentine published twelve full-length collections of poetry during her lifetime, and all of them--plus an entirely new, unpublished manuscript--can be found in this masterful collection of her life's work. The new poems acknowledge the inevi... Read More about Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine

" Valentine's] minimalist, elided style is like the quiet concentration of a bank robber trying to crack a safe." --Publishers Weekly.... Read More about Break the Glass

"A poet of genius."--Vladimir Nabokov Via what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"--not translations--of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with... Read More about Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva [With CD (Audio)]

The collected works of one of America's most innovative poets.Winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2004)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 to critical acclaim. Spare a... Read More about Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry)

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.... Read More about Home Deep Blue (Poetry from Alice James Books)

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 ... Read More about Lucy: A Poem (Quarternote Chapbook)