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Books by Jean Valentine
  | | The Cradle of the Real Life(1st Edition) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Jean Valentine Paperback, 85 Pages, Published 2000 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6406-1, ISBN: 0-8195-6406-0 "In Jean Valentine's first book, her poems transformed dreams into living experience by means of luminous language that echoed the unconscious mind's revelations. In her later books, she almost reverses this process to show life as veiled and inconclusive, suggestive rather than definitive. The elliptical yet lucid craft of her poems presents experience as only imperfectly graspable. The poems ride lightly on the waves of thought, more t ..." |
 | | Home Deep Blue(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Jean Valentine Paperback, 79 Pages, Published 1989 by Alice James Books ISBN-13: 978-0-914086-81-9, ISBN: 0-914086-81-2 "Eighteen new poems extend the trajectory of Jean Valentine’s work. Included are selections from her four previous books: Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things, and The Messenger. Her themes of pilgrimage, time, and human connection are revealed in intense meditations." |
 | | Break the Glass by Jean Valentine Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2012 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-394-9, ISBN: 1-55659-394-5 ""As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library JournalIn her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whether writing elegies, meditations on aging, or an extended homage to Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone ..." |
 | | Lucy(8th Edition) A Poem (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Jean Valentine Paperback, 32 Pages, Published 2009 by Sarabande Books ISBN-13: 978-1-932511-68-0, ISBN: 1-932511-68-7 ""Lucy / your secret book / that you leaned over and wrote just in the dirt-- / Not having to have an ending / Not having to last. . . ."And so begins Jean Valentine's provocative new work, "Lucy," a poem that pays homage to the three million-year-old skeleton of the earliest known hominid. With a deep sense of gratitude and profound longing, this poem celebrates the creative power of the female by introducing us to one of our oldest hum ..." |
 | | Door in the Mountain(4th Edition) New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Jean Valentine Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2007 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6713-0, ISBN: 0-8195-6713-2 "Winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2004)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 Mountai ..." |
 | | The River at Wolf by Jean Valentine Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 1992 by Alice James Books ISBN-13: 978-0-914086-95-6, ISBN: 0-914086-95-2 ""Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing."—Marie Howe" |
 | | Shirt in Heaven by Jean Valentine, Nigisty Ogbayohannes Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2015 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-478-6, ISBN: 1-55659-478-X ""Jean Valentine has a gift for tough strangeness, but also a dreamlike syntax and manner of arranging the lines of . . . short poems so as to draw us into the doubleness and fluency of feelings.""The New York Times Book Review"Quietly marked by elegy and memory, National Book Award winner Jean Valentine's thirteenth book is empowered by her signature clear music and compassion. Valentine leads us chronologically from childhood drawings ..." |
 | | Dark Elderberry Branch Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva by Marina I. Tsvetaeva, Ilya Kaminsky, Jean Valentine, Marina T︠s︡vetaeva Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Alice James Books ISBN-13: 978-1-882295-94-4, ISBN: 1-882295-94-3 ""A poet of genius."--Vladimir NabokovVia what Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine call "readings"--not translations--of fragments of Marina Tsvetaeva's poems and prose, Tsvetaeva's lyrical genius is made accessible and poignant to a new generation of readers. By juxtaposing fragments of her poems with short pieces of prose, we begin to know her as poet, friend, enemy, woman, lover, and revolutionary.From "Poems for Moscow (2)": "From my ha ..." |
 | | Break the Glass(1st Edition) (Lannan Literary Selections) by Jean Valentine Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2010 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55659-321-5, ISBN: 1-55659-321-X ""[Jean Valentine's] poems are a rare pleasure: serious and graceful, never glib, testimony to the strength and beauty of the lyric as a music of words, not ideas. As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library JournalIn her eleventh collection, National Book Award–winning poet Jean Valentine characteristically weds a moral imperative to imaginative and linguistic leaps and bounds. Whe ..." |
 | | Little Boat(Reprint) (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Jean Valentine Hardcover, 84 Pages, Published 2007 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6850-2, ISBN: 0-8195-6850-3 "Following her National Book Award-winning Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003, Jean Valentine returns with a meditative and magical new collection. In Little Boat, Valentine continues her exploration of spiritual life, confronting the realities of aging and death in the serene and dreamlike voice so beloved by her many readers. Infusing even the most melancholy subjects with warmth and humanity, Little Boat explores ..." |
 | | Wesleyan Poetry Ser. Door in the Mountain : New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 by Jean Valentine 308 Pages, Published 2011 by Wesleyan University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-7315-5, ISBN: 0-8195-7315-9 "And there are never enough goodbyes.” I know: the daffodil is me. Brave. Willi's an iris. Brave. Brave. Tall. Home. Deep. Blue. To Raphael, angel of happy meeting The pear tree buds shine like salt; the stretch of new-ploughed earth holds up ..." |
 | | Door in the Mountain(1st Edition) New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Jean Valentine Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2004 by Wesleyan ISBN-13: 978-0-8195-6712-3, ISBN: 0-8195-6712-4 "Winner of the National Book Award in Poetry (2004)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 Mountai ..." |
 | | Questions for Ecclesiastes(1st Edition) by Jean Valentine, Mark Jarman Hardcover, 68 Pages, Published 1979 by Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-20871-4, ISBN: 0-374-20871-9 |
 | | Shirt in Heaven by Jean Valentine 80 Pages, Published 2016 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-134-2, ISBN: 1-61932-134-3 "The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation Amazon.com Anonymous Arcadia Fund Diana and Jay Broze Beroz Ferrell & The Point, LLC Golden Lasso, LLC Gull Industries, Inc. on behalf of William and Ruth True Lannan Foundation Rhoady and ..." |
 | | Poems for Jerry A Tribute to Gerald Stern (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION) by Gerald Stern, Ed Ochester, Jean Valentine, Matthew Dickman, Peter Oresick, Scott Silsbe, Toi Derricotte, Dave Newman, Lori Jakiela, Lynn Emanuel Paperback, 66 Pages, Published 2015 by Caliban Book Shop ISBN-13: 978-1-5173-3479-6, ISBN: 1-5173-3479-9 "A tribute to Gerald Stern, with poems about Stern or in his style by a bevy of contemporary poets, plus 4 previously unpublished poems by Stern himself. Contributors include: Ed Ochester, Jean Valentine, Matthew Dickman, Peter Oresick, Judith Vollmer, Toi Derricotte, Lynn Emanuel, Jan Beatty, Jimmy Cvetic, Dave Newman, Scott Silsbe, Bob Pajich, and Lori Jakiela." |
 | | Break the Glass by Jean Valentine 98 Pages, Published 2013 by Copper Canyon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61932-014-7, ISBN: 1-61932-014-2 "As Adrienne Rich has said of Valentine's work, "This is a poetry of the highest order, because it lets us into spaces and meanings we couldn't approach in any other way." |
 | | Growing Darkness, Growing Light (Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperback)) by Jean Valentine Paperback, 65 Pages, Published 1997 by Carnegie-Mellon University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-88748-242-7, ISBN: 0-88748-242-2 "Contains forty-three poems by the award-winning poet." |
 | | Collected Poems (Autumn House Poetry) by Patricia Dobler, Jean Valentine, Ilse Aichinger Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2005 by Autumn House Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-932870-05-3, ISBN: 1-932870-05-9 "This volume includes the complete texts of Talking to Strangers (winner of the Brittingham Prize, U. of Wisconsin, 1986), UXB (Mill Hunk Books, 1991), and a 50 page manuscript of poems completed shortly before the author’s death." |
 | | Ordinary Things by Jean Valentine Paperback, 47 Pages, Published 1974 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-51209-5, ISBN: 0-374-51209-4 |
 | | The River at Wolf by Jean Valentine 72 Pages, Published 2015 by Alice James Books ISBN-13: 978-1-938584-52-7, ISBN: 1-938584-52-X ""Jean Valentine has written a visionary book. If it is built with the brick and wood of this world, the light that pours through its windows is searing, healing."—Marie Howe" |
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