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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... grass . . . The Windows Funeral dream “We'll put them all down in the great book of sleep.” “You may be dead but Don't stop loving me.” In memory “Don't hold yourself cheap.” All the windows came to him in tears. The chestnut new poems ...
... grass nest you made and sent to me by hand: It runs through my thighs, even now, that you thought of it! for a little while we thought of nothing else. Frozen little couple in caps, frozen beaks— Happiness (3) The moment you turned to ...
... grass. I'm sending you this seed-pod, this red ribbon, my tongue, these two red ribbons, my mouth, my other mouth, —but the other world—blindly I guzzle the swimming milk of its seed field flower— I could never let go my husband my ...
... grass speaks or the mouth of the lake Then came an undone stitch of light You tore it open and flew Trim my hoofs Trim my hoofs! I am thirsty for experience. The glass man on the glass river says If only I could get down it alone —But ...
... grass floor leaning against your knees: Under the ground I sat down on the floor and embraced your knees. * Door in the Mountain Never ran this hard through the valley never ate so many stars I was carrying a dead deer tied on to my new ...
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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 |