Shirt in Heaven

Jean Valentine

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Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
15 October 2015

Poetry

""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.

By: Jean Valentine
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 99g
ISBN: 9781556594786
ISBN 10: 155659478X
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 15 October 2015
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 twelve 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.

Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 2015

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