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Break the Glass

Jean Valentine

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English
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
11 September 2012
""[Jean Valentine's] poems are a rare pleasure: serious and graceful, never glib, testimony to the strength and beauty of the lyric as a music of words, not ideas. As elliptical and demanding as Emily Dickinson, Valentine consistently rewards the reader.""-Library Journal

In her eleventh collection, National Book Awardwinning poet 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 ancient remains, Valentine searches out ideas and explores the unexplainable. 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.
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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 is the state poet of New York. She has earned many honors, including the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in New York City.
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Imprint:   Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 190mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 9mm
Weight:   127g
ISBN:   9781556593949
ISBN 10:   1556593945
Pages:   98
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jean Valentine: Jean Valentine is the current State Poet of New York. She is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. She has earned many of the country's highest honors for her work, including the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and The Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University. She lives in New York City.

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