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Jean Valentine
“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.”
—Grace Paley
January 1989
ISBN: 9780914086819
Available in print and digital formats.
Jean Valentine won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her eleventh book of poetry, Break the Glass, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2010. Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003, was the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Valentine was the State Poet of New York from 2008-2010. She received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2009 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. She has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the NEA, The Bunting Institute, The Rockefeller Foundation, The New York Council for the Arts, and The New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the Maurice English Prize, the Teasdale Poetry Prize, and The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize in 2000. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, the Graduate Writing Program of New York University, Columbia University, and the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan.www.jeanvalentine.com
“This space is left empty to create a white space. To create a white separation block in these individual book pages, add a Quote Block”
Additional Praise:
“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.”
—Sandra McPherson
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Featured:
Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated by Ilya Kaminsky & Jean Valentine
2014 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry – First Runner-Up
2014 Montaigne Medal Finalist
2014 da Vinci Eye Finalist
Alice James Books Translation Series
Paperback with CD (readings in original Russian)
“This ‘homage’ to Tsvetaeva captures moments, lines, and fragments the way a talented artist captures an individual with a few well-placed strokes of charcoal. As artists understand, a faithful rendering is not always the best way to capture an individual, a scene, or an idea. It is not completeness or precision that are most important, but instead, intuition, empathy, and artfulness. And in this sense Dark Elderberry Branch succeeds brilliantly.”
—Gwarlingo
November 2012
ISBN: 9781882295944