Jean Valentine This-World Company

Name: Jean Valentine This-World Company
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ISBN: 9780472051830

ISBN-10: 0472051830

ISBN-13: 9780472051830

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kazim Ali, John Hoppenthaler

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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…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Little Light on the Road: An Informal Primer on Reading Jean Valentine, in Six Brief Sections



Dream Barker: Preoedipal Fusion and Radiant Boundaries in Jean Valentine



Pilgrims



Orpheus and Eurydice and Gestures of Turning: Palimpsest in the Poetry of Jean Valentine



On Jean Valentine's The Messenger



"Through Such Hard Wind and Light": Jean Valentine's Elegy for Elizabeth Bishop



Jean Valentine's Spontaneous Mythologies



Lost and Found: Jean Valentine's Poems of Childhood and Motherhood



Lit from Inside: Jean Valentine's River at Wolf



Ghost Sonnets



Incarnational



Remnants and Recognition



Be Still and Know: Silence in the Poetry of Jean Valentine



"This Close to God this Close to You": Incarnation in Jean Valentine



Globe on Fire: Jean Valentine as a Political Poet



Everyone Was Drunk: Reading Jean Valentine through a Shot Glass Lens



The Gift of the Double Swerve (Jean Valentine's Endings)



For Jean Valentine, Out of Thirty-five Years



"The History of the World Without Words": Mysticism and Social Conscience in the Poetry of Jean Valentine



"Awake too you are everyone": Gestures of Empathy in Jean Valentine's New Poems



Where Do You Look for Me: The Afterlife in the Poems of Jean Valentine



Artifact as Metaphor: Reading Nearness in Jean Valentine's Little Boat



Secret Book Written in the Dirt: Jean Valentine's Lucy: A Poem



On Saying No: Valentine and Dickinson Break the Glass



The Umwelt of the Question: Notes on Territory and Desire



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