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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,...
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In her eleventh collection—honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry—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 Lucy, the earliest known hominid, the pared-down compactness of her tone and vision reveals a singular voice in American poetry.
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Eighteen new poems extend the trajectory of Jean Valentine's work. Included are selections from her four previous books: Dream Barker, Pilgrims, Ordinary Things, and The Messenger. Her themes of pilgrimage, time, and human connection are revealed in intense meditations.
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An excerpt from the collection of poetry from the book:
Spring and Its Flowers
Then, Tell me your fantasies, you siad.
And I: OK; I'm lying in bed, asleep, a child,
and you, you're sitting int he rocker there, knitting,
like a mother bear. And you:
Can I be the one in the bed, too?
and you in the chair there, knitting?
That February you dreamed your old father said, Spring
this year and its flowers
will cost you eighteen thougsand dollars.
Waking...