Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003Wesleyan University Press, 2 jan 2007 - 308 pagina's This National Book Award–winning volume presents nearly forty years of the renowned poet’s work. Between 1965 and 2003, Jean Valentine published nine critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including Dream Barker(winner of the Yale Younger Poets Award), Ordinary Things, and The River at Wolf. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine’s poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers together all of Valentine's published poems, presenting them alongside a stunning new collection. Valentine’s poetry is as recognizable as the slant truth of a dream. She is a brave, unshirking poet who speaks with fire on the great subjects―love, and death, and the soul. Her images―strange, canny visions of the unknown self―clang with the authenticity of real experience. This is an urgent art that wants to heal what it touches, a poetry that wants to tell, intimately, the whole life. |
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... fire London fog huge little footsteps tok tok tok I knew three people and three more at work I knew you I felt around in the dark for Life and you I picked myself up by the hair four stories up and dropped me —Still I wouldn't budge ...
... fire around my head this minute vanishing I befriended with it Two Poems for Matthew Shepard But what about the blue dory—the soul —Thief the sun Thief the rain Into love the size of a silver dollar [the soul] disappeared to a pencil ...
... fire: to see the way Rodney Dying (4) A woman was picking up the plastic forks and napkins in a plastic box I was sitting on the grass floor leaning against your knees: Under the ground I sat down on the floor and embraced your knees ...
... fire and the window hot on the left side sharp on the right something wrong Born wrong cleaves to itself deflects you Still, someone wrote something here in the dirt and Isip at the word— The Night Sea The longing for touch was what ...
... fire skin soft as a horse's black muzzle, soft, soft black hair of love, white hair on your head —Now they have muzzled you. That life, we couldn't stop, the sun went down, spring snow was coming was coming Advent Calendar In the tiny ...
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PILGRIMS 1969 | 73 |
ORDINARY THINGS 1974 | 101 |
THE MESSENGER 1979 | 127 |
HOMEDEEPBLUE 1989 | 165 |
THE RIVER AT WOLF 1992 | 181 |
GROWING DARKNESS GROWING LIGHT 1997 | 217 |
THE CRADLE OF THE REAL LIFE 2000 | 245 |
Index of Titles and First Lines | 277 |
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Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 Jean Valentine Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2004 |