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The Cradle of the Real Life
Jean Valentine
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Description for The Cradle of the Real Life
paperback. A poet speaks of the deaths and births that come within a life: alcoholism, womanhood, depression, marriage, motherhood, psychotherapy, sex, poetry. Series: Wesleyan Poetry. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
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 textures than statements. Some readers have characterized Valentine as a "deep image" writer, but syntactically her work is more akin to the work of Mandelstam and Paul Celan than to that of Lorca ... Read more
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 textures than statements. Some readers have characterized Valentine as a "deep image" writer, but syntactically her work is more akin to the work of Mandelstam and Paul Celan than to that of Lorca ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
85
Condition
New
Series
Wesleyan Poetry
Number of Pages
85
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819564061
SKU
V9780819564061
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