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Door in the Mountain
Jean Valentine
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Description for Door in the Mountain
Paperback. The collected works of one of America's most innovative poets. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 431.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819567130
SKU
V9780819567130
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Ref
99-90
About Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine has received many awards and honors, including the National Book Award and the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and the 92nd Street Y.
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