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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... there the little English boy would love us under neath a tree: not kill us: that was white space only like her childhood like her father her sorrow Nine Your hand on my knee I couldn't move The heat felt good I couldn't move The ...
... there was a woodcutter, when he asked me to marry him the woman in the grocery store said You look like you lost your last friend. First love! When we broke up it was as if the last egg in the house got dropped on the broken floor. This ...
... me: no more care I left the clothes standing there I swam into swarming projectless air redemptionless from under the earth to over the earth air to not air The Coin While you were alive and thought well of 12 door in the mountain Go Clear.
Jean Valentine. I knelt to my parents Their suffering How much sleep there was in sleep How no suffering is lost Letter The hornet holds on to the curtain, winter sleep. Rubs her legs. Climbs the curtain. Behind her the cedars sleep ...
... there like you But then the other world was going to be given: the cello part carrying us the whole time like earth the scarred hip tipped groin the flying whitethorn hedge the cup In your eyes In your eyes there was a little 20 door in ...
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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 |