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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... lives where we met with cruelty but kindness, too, and nosed up out of the cold dark water, and walked on our fins . . . The path between The path between the two twelve-foot hedges between the fire and the window hot on the left side ...
... live oaks waiting to be let out of the Visiting Area. A weed green A weed green with a black shadow village under it and then browngray dirt then a browngray stick stuck on 28 door in the mountain The Shirt One Foot in the Dark A weed ...
... , Whose eyes I weighted keeping my late hours, Loving my boys, chain-smoking in late, dead bars, Watching the first light pickle Storrow Drive. Why did I need that empty space to live? The 42 door in the mountain Miles from Home.
Jean Valentine. Why did I need that empty space to live? The hand in the dark was my own, God knows whose cars. The clay gods lean, and cast shadows under the stars, Enjoying the blameless flowers on their Boston roof. The watering-can's ...
... lives before. O saints, more rollicking sunbeams, more birds about your heads! Catherine, more Catherine-wheels! Sic transit gloria mundi, The quick flax, the swollen globe of water. Sic transit John's coronation, mortal in celluloid ...
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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 |