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Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819567124
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Door in the Mountain written by Jean Valentine and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected works of one of America’s most innovative poets.
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321343
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Shirt in Heaven written by Jean Valentine and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 and wartime memories to the present, where she addresses aging and the loss of loved ones. These poems of tender grace reflect on the small histories few ever fully see. Shirt in Heaven Come upon a snapshot of secret you, smiling like FDR, leaning on your crutches— come upon letters I thought I'd burned— I suppose you've got a place with lots of stairs. I'm at the end of something, you're at the beginning . . . —dearest, they told me a surgeon sat down in the hospital morgue, next to your body, & cried. He yelled at the aide to get out. His two sons had been your students. —me too, little-knowing— Jean Valentine is the current State Poet of New York and author of twelve books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain, which won the National Book Award. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University, and lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619320142
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Break the Glass written by Jean Valentine and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader."—Library Journal In 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 and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry. 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." From "If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them": At a hotel in another star. The rooms were cold and damp, we were both at the desk at midnight asking if they had any heaters. They had one heater. You are ill, please you take it. Thank you for visiting my dream. * Can you breathe all right? Break the glass shout break the glass force the room break the thread Open the music behind the glass . . . Jean Valentine, a former State Poet of New York, earned a National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City.
Author : Mohammed Kazim Ali
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472028618
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Jean Valentine written by Mohammed Kazim Ali and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of more than four decades, contemporary American poet Jean Valentine has written eleven books of stunning, spirit-inflected poetry. This collection of essays, assembled over several years by Kazim Ali and John Hoppenthaler, brings together twenty-six pieces on all stages of Valentine's career by a range of poets, scholars, and admirers. Valentine's poetry has long been valued for its dreamlike qualities, its touches of the personal and the political, and its mesmerizing phrasing. Valentine is a National Book Award winner and was named the State Poet of New York in 2008. She has taught a number of popular workshops and has been awarded a Bunting Institute Fellowship, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Prize.
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 193858452X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The River at Wolf written by Jean Valentine and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819568502
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Little Boat written by Jean Valentine and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New poems from a National Book Award winner
Author : Marci Peschke
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1479538140
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Valentine Queen written by Marci Peschke and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between planning her grandparents' surprise anniversary party and her school's new Be Sweet project, there's a lot happening, but Kylie Jean is still determined to be the valentine queen!
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Dream Barker, and Other Poems written by Jean Valentine and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher : Poetry from Alice James Books
ISBN 13 : 9780914086819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Home, Deep, Blue written by Jean Valentine and published by Poetry from Alice James Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Marina T︠S︡vetaeva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781882295944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Dark Elderberry Branch written by Marina T︠S︡vetaeva and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of America's most passionate poets work magic to unearth the true voice of Tsvetaeva, to open [her] veins.
Author : Jean Valentine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lucy written by Jean Valentine and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth Quarternote Chapbook by winner of the National Book Award and PSA Shelley Memorial Prize.
Author : Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822990954
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The Book of Seventy written by Alicia Suskin Ostriker and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2009-10-25 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the “golden years.” as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her keen engagement with the self and the world, Ostriker offers us a voice and a perspective that explore the territory of seventy and beyond.
Author : Catherine Barnett
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555978665
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Human Hours written by Catherine Barnett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Believer Book Award The triumphant follow-up collection to The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award Catherine Barnett’s tragicomic third collection, Human Hours, shuttles between a Whitmanian embrace of others and a kind of rapacious solitude. Barnett speaks from the middle of hope and confusion, carrying philosophy into the everyday. Watching a son become a young man, a father become a restless beloved shell, and a country betray its democratic ideals, the speakers try to make sense of such departures. Four lyric essays investigate the essential urge and appeal of questions that are “accursed,” that are limited—and unanswered—by answers. What are we to do with the endangered human hours that remain to us? Across the leaps and swerves of this collection, the fevered mind tries to slow—or at least measure—time with quiet bravura: by counting a lover’s breaths; by remembering a father’s space-age watch; by envisioning the apocalyptic future while bedding down on a hard, cold floor, head resting on a dictionary. Human Hours pulses with the absurd, with humor that accompanies the precariousness of the human condition.
Author : Brian Teare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Room where I was Born written by Brian Teare and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2003 Brittingham Prize in Poetry. Brian Teare's poetry is turning the lyric on its ear, along with the Southern Gothic, the fairy tale, the Old Testament--anything that gets in the way of his powerful voice gets pulled in, chewed up, spit out as a new and frightening (and sexy!) utterance. No one is safe in any of these poems, in any sense of the word. What a brave new voice, livid and gutsy and fresh. --D.A. Powell.
Author : Jean Marzollo
Publisher : Cartwheel Books
ISBN 13 : 9780590475969
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book Valentine Cats written by Jean Marzollo and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer cats, artist cats, and postal cats create and deliver Valentines.
Author : Joan Singler
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804246
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Seattle in Black and White written by Joan Singler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town. Energized by the national civil rights movement, an interracial group of Seattle residents joined together to form the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Operational from 1961 through 1968, CORE had a brief but powerful effect on Seattle. The chapter began by challenging one of the more blatant forms of discrimination in the city, local supermarkets. Located within the black community and dependent on black customers, these supermarkets refused to hire black employees. CORE took the supermarkets to task by organizing hundreds of volunteers into shifts of continuous picketers until stores desegregated their staffs. From this initial effort CORE, in partnership with the NAACP and other groups, launched campaigns to increase employment and housing opportunities for black Seattleites, and to address racial inequalities in Seattle public schools. The members of Seattle CORE were committed to transforming Seattle into a more integrated and just society. Seattle was one of more than one hundred cities to support an active CORE chapter. Seattle in Black and White tells the local, Seattle story about this national movement. Authored by four active members of Seattle CORE, this book not only recounts the actions of Seattle CORE but, through their memories, also captures the emotion and intensity of this pivotal and highly charged time in America’s history. A V Ethel Willis White Book For more information visit: http://seattleinblackandwhite.org/
Author : Craig Blais
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299291936
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book About Crows written by Craig Blais and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unsentimental and at times disquieting first collection, the poems of About Crows excavate self, family, race, location, sex, art, and religion to uncover the artifacts of a succession of traumas that the speaker does not always experience firsthand but carries with him to refashion into some new importance. This is a book of half-states, broken affiliations, and dislocation. The speaker leads the reader through the fragments of a flooded town that grows increasingly elusive the more one looks for it; through a succession of Seoul "love motels" that further displace the outsider to unclaimed margins transformed into sites of creative invention; through "galleries" of artwork, where movement, color, and image are renewed through ekphrasis; and through the world of the metatextual long poem "The Cult Poem," where good and bad moral binaries tangle into a rat's nest of our best and worst spiritual ambitions. The poems and sequences of About Crows are marked by their artistic balance of the sublime and the profane, of polyphony, syntactical complexity, clashing images, cagey humor, and unsettling sincerity, all trying desperately to connect.
