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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... leaves them: 260 Away from you 260 Child 261 Part II: Her Lost Book 262 1. 263 2. 268 3. 272 Index of Titles and First Lines 277 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments The following sections of contents xv.
... the air rises up out of the air: One leaf then branches stood up in the sun consuming —Cousin, it was happiness on earth. The Very Bad Horse The very bad horse doesn't budge 8 door in the mountain I came to you Cousin.
... leaf. One leaf of 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 ...
... ”: the first line echoes Jane Kenyon's poem Things. Page 26, “My old body”: My old body a drop of dew heavy at the leaf tip. —Kiba Dream Barker (1965) This page intentionally left blank First Love 38 door in the mountain Notes.
... leaves a ring. Easy to die: we knew it all along: Knee-high to the dark as of old: These words I tell you smoking in my eye: The tree-frog is the tree-frog. The sky is the sky, The rattling bay runs night and day I, I, I, Over and over ...
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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 |