Books : Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry)
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by: Jean Valentine
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780819567130
ISBN: 0819567132
Label: Wesleyan
Manufacturer: Wesleyan
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: January 02, 2007
Publisher: Wesleyan
Sales Rank: 777177
Studio: Wesleyan
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Since the 1965 publication of her first book, Dream Barker, selected for the Yale Younger Poets Award, Jean Valentine has published eight collections of poetry to critical acclaim. Spare and intensely-felt, Valentine's poems present experience as only imperfectly graspable. This volume gathers together all of Valentine's published poems and includes a new collection, 'Door in the Mountain.'
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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Rating: - Valentine is a Titan
Jean Valentine has had a rich career. This book brings together all her pervious volumes so the reader may see her progression from a passionate, visceral sapling, to a sturdy oak. Her poetry is emotive, poignant, with moments of sheer perfection. I very rarely enjoy a poets entire body of work, but Valentine holds fast in her verse over the years, evolving her message over time, but never losing her voice.
Everyone should own this book: there is a verse for every palate.
Rating: - Finally, All the Poems
This is the ninth collection of poetry Jean Valentine has published over a period of forty years. This lush voloume gathers all of her published work for the first time, exhibiting her vast artistic range. She continues to be an important and original voice in American poetry. She writes poetry that opens and heals, which carries an intimacy that asks for nothing more or less than our presence.
Jean Valentine has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including some of the most ... Read More
Rating: - Jean Valentine is a rock star
She says the most with the least. Her poems to me are perfect. They are the ones you whisper to yourself. They are the secret things you would write in your school notebook when you knew no one was looking. They should be put line by line into fortune cookies and sold in novelty stores. The next time we are afraid of a country which is threatening us we should wage preemptive peace on them by skywriting these poems above their capitals. This is what poems sound like when your mother sings to you in ... Read More
Rating: - WHAT IS PREVIOUS REVIEWER TALKING ABOUT???
This is the best book of poems this year... Valentine is a marvel, a complete original, and so unbelievably non-PC, it makes me think the previous reviewer is reading something in another language. Totally idiotic review. Get this book.
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