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- Jean Valentine: This-World Company
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- 2012
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Under Discussion
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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 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Prize.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- On Jean Valentine’s The Messenger
- pp. 60-69
- Ghost Sonnets
- pp. 104-110
- Incarnational
- pp. 111-115
- Remnants and Recognition
- pp. 116-120
- For Jean Valentine, Out of Thirty-five Years
- pp. 159-163
- Contributors
- pp. 239-243
- Further Reading
- p. 244
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