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Jean Valentine
1988 Beatrice Hawley Award
"Reach of spirit, alloy
of shock, concern and grace; scope where few look for it; heroic guesses extending poetry
out where it must both float and support—why we need and why I love Jean
Valentine's poetry." "After reading a couple
of Jean Valentine's poems I need to catch my breath. Then I read further—maybe two or three to quiet myself, which does happen for a while. But then I put
the book down, breathless." two poems from home · deep · blue
—Sandra McPherson
—Grace Paley
about the author
Jean Valentine is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Cradle of the Real Life (Wesleyan, 2000). Earlier books include Dream Barker (Yale Series of Younger Poets, 1965), The River at Wolf (Alice James Books, 1992), and Growing Darkness, Growing Light (Carnegie Mellon, 1997). She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and was awarded the Shelley Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society of America in 2000. She lives and works in New York City.
Ms. Valentine's Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems will be released by Wesleyan in November 2004.
